You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGYou can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGOnly 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 PAULINGScience 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.
LINUS PAULINGLife is a relationship between molecules.
LINUS PAULINGMan’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
LINUS PAULINGScience is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
LINUS PAULINGHumanism 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.
LINUS PAULINGThe only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
LINUS PAULINGIn 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.
LINUS PAULINGBut 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.
LINUS PAULINGFacts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
LINUS PAULINGScience is the search for truth.
LINUS PAULINGEveryone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
LINUS PAULINGI 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.
LINUS PAULINGThe 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.
LINUS PAULINGProvided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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