Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.
LINUS PAULINGNations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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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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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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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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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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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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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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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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