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.
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 PAULINGMan’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
LINUS PAULINGEveryone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
LINUS PAULINGFacts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
LINUS PAULINGProvided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
LINUS PAULINGI have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
LINUS PAULINGLike 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.
LINUS PAULINGI 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.
LINUS PAULINGThe best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGLife is a relationship between molecules.
LINUS PAULINGI 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.
LINUS PAULINGEvery aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
LINUS PAULINGMen 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.
LINUS PAULINGDo unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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 PAULINGI 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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