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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.

Linus Pauling

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Agreement Goodness Nation
Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Life One Liner Relationship Science
Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
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Game Harm Rival Science Search Truth Try
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.
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Greatness Humanity Ideas Philosophy Profit Progress Science
You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Goodness Ideas Quantity Yourself
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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Development Formation Greatness Science Structure Thinking
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Curiosity Greatness Happiness Life Reality Satisfaction
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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Decision Enjoyment Joy Life Myself Person Preparation Thinking Try
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Biology Body Complication Human Live Oneself Structure
You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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Healing Sick Yourself
There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Harm Radiance Safety
Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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Life Property Relationship Science
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
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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College Myself Nature Study World
Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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Cancer Mistake War
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Fact Fly Science Yourself

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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