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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

Linus Pauling

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
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Goodness Ideas Learning Oneself Wrong
Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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Body Correction Nutrition Sick
Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
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Authority Better Decision Fact Happiness Leadership Life Medicine Politics Work World
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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Believe Complication Explanation Principle Science Simplicity
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
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Greatness Humanity Ideas Philosophy Profit Progress Science
Science is the search for truth.
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One Liner Science Truth
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: ‘Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.’ The twenty-five percent is for error.
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Errors Expectation Gold Mistake Rule Yourself
Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.
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College Myself Nature Study World
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Biology Body Complication Human Live Oneself Structure
I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
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Decision Enjoyment Joy Life Myself Person Preparation Thinking Try
I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Myself Possible World
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Policy Sanity War World
Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Life One Liner Relationship Science
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Agreement Goodness Nation
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
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Effort Moral Rejection Science Search Understand World
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.
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Beautiful Face Life Process Production Structure

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