I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
LINUS PAULINGProvided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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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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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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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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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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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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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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 believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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