I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
LINUS PAULINGLife is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used – we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.
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Science is the search for truth.
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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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I think that the formation of [DNA’s] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.
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In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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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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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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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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