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 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.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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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.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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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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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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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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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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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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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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