Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
LINUS PAULINGScience 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.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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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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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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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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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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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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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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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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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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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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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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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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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