The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGI 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.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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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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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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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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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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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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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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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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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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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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