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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

Linus Pauling

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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Authority Better Decision Fact Happiness Leadership Life Medicine Politics Work World
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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Best Goodness Ideas Teaching Way Yourself
I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.
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Believe Evil Force Goodness Greatness Humanity Military Moral Power World
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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Chemistry Crazy Friendship Laboratory Man Thinking
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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Errors Expectation Gold Mistake Rule Yourself
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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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Harm Radiance Safety
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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Effort Moral Rejection Science Search Understand World
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Fact Fly Science Yourself
I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Myself Possible World
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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Better Errors Expectation Mistake Subject Treat
Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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Body Correction Nutrition Sick
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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Believe Complication Explanation Principle Science Simplicity
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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Goodness Ideas Learning Oneself Wrong
Science is the search for truth.
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One Liner Science Truth
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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Development Formation Greatness Science Structure Thinking

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