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Life is a relationship between molecules.

Linus Pauling

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
Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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Chemistry Politics Relationship World
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
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
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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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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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Life One Liner Relationship Science
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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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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Cancer Mistake War
There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Harm Radiance Safety
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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Beautiful Face Life Process Production Structure
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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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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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
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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Science is the search for truth.
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One Liner Science Truth

Life is a relationship between molecules.

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