black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

But 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 Pauling

I 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.
LINUS PAULING

Decision Enjoyment Joy Life Myself Person Preparation Thinking Try
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.
LINUS PAULING

Goodness Ideas Learning Oneself Wrong
Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
LINUS PAULING

Life Property Relationship Science
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
LINUS PAULING

Agreement Goodness Nation
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.
LINUS PAULING

Development Formation Greatness Science Structure Thinking
Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
LINUS PAULING

Game Harm Rival Science Search Truth Try
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.
LINUS PAULING

Acceptance Destroy Ideas Immoral Power Weapon World
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
LINUS PAULING

Best Goodness Ideas Inspirational Success Way
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 PAULING

Best Goodness Ideas Teaching Way Yourself
I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
LINUS PAULING

Myself Possible World
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.
LINUS PAULING

Effort Moral Rejection Science Search Understand World
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.
LINUS PAULING

Consequence Curiosity Discover Enthusiasm Imagination Interest Knowledge Man Result Science Wait
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: ‘Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.’ The twenty-five percent is for error.
LINUS PAULING

Errors Expectation Gold Mistake Rule Yourself
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
LINUS PAULING

Better Errors Expectation Mistake Subject Treat
No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
LINUS PAULING

Evidence Food Goodness Health Medicine
You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
LINUS PAULING

Goodness Ideas Quantity Yourself

But 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

But 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Linus Pauling Quotes