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 PAULINGI 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.
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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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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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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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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Science is the search for truth.
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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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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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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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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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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.
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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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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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