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.
LINUS PAULINGIn 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.
LINUS PAULINGYou can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
LINUS PAULINGScience 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.
LINUS PAULINGThe best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGOnly 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 PAULINGScience is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
LINUS PAULINGDo 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.
LINUS PAULINGThere is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
LINUS PAULINGWe 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.
LINUS PAULINGI try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
LINUS PAULINGMen 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.
LINUS PAULINGNations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
LINUS PAULINGOptimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
LINUS PAULINGI 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.
LINUS PAULINGBut I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe – and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
LINUS PAULINGI have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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