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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

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Harm Radiance Safety
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
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
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
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
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Policy Sanity War World
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
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
Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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Future Medicine Nutrition
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
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
I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
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Identity Myself Science Try
Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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Civilization Communication Evolution Greatness Man Power Remember Responsibility Thinking
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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Acceptance Destroy Ideas Immoral Power Weapon World

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