Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
LINUS PAULINGNo evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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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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