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.
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.
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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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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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.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
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