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.
LINUS PAULINGI have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Science is the search for truth.
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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 only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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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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