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.
LINUS PAULINGSatisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
-
-
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
LINUS PAULING -
Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
LINUS PAULING -
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULING -
You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
LINUS PAULING -
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
LINUS PAULING -
There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING