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.
LINUS PAULINGProvided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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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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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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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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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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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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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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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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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
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I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
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Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.
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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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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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