There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
LINUS PAULINGThere is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
LINUS PAULINGDo 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 PAULINGScience 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.
LINUS PAULINGYou can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
LINUS PAULINGYou can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGNo evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
LINUS PAULINGFacts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
LINUS PAULINGOptimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
LINUS PAULINGBut 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.
LINUS PAULINGBy 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.
LINUS PAULINGHumanism 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.
LINUS PAULINGNations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
LINUS PAULINGThe best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGLife is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
LINUS PAULINGI try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
LINUS PAULINGWe 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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