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 PAULINGMan’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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We 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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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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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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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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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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Like 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.
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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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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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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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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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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Science 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.
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Science is the search for truth.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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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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