“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.”

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.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

Life is a relationship between molecules.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

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.

Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.

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.

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.

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.

I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. To group all facts under some general laws.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.