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.
LINUS PAULINGFacts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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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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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.
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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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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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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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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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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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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But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe – and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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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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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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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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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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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Science is the search for truth.
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