No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
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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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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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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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Science is the search for truth.
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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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe – and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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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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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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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