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.
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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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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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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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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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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Science is the search for truth.
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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 believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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 always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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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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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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