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.
LINUS PAULINGDo unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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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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Men 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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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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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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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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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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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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.
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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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