I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
LINUS PAULINGFacts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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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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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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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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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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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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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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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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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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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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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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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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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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