The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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.
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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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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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Science 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.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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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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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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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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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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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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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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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