Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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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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 think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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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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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
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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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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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 have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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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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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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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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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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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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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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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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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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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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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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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