There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
LINUS PAULINGMen 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.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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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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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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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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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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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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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot 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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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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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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 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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