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Science is the search for truth.

Linus Pauling

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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Errors Expectation Gold Mistake Rule Yourself
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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Age Believe Health Life Practice Time Youth
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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Evidence Food Goodness Health Medicine
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Policy Sanity War World
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.
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Authority Better Decision Fact Happiness Leadership Life Medicine Politics Work World
There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Harm Radiance Safety
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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Believe Complication Explanation Principle Science Simplicity
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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Best Goodness Ideas Teaching Way Yourself
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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Consequence Curiosity Discover Enthusiasm Imagination Interest Knowledge Man Result Science Wait
I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Myself Possible World
Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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Cancer Mistake War
Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Life One Liner Relationship Science
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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Believe Evil Force Goodness Greatness Humanity Military Moral Power World
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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Cancer Organization People Research Support
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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Best Goodness Ideas Inspirational Success Way
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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Better Errors Expectation Mistake Subject Treat

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