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 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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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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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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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 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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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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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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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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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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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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Do 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.
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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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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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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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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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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Everyone 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.
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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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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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