Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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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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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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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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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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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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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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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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