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 PAULINGEveryone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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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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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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 have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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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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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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You can’t have good ideas unless you 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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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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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.
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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.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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.
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