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 PAULINGSatisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
-
-
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
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 PAULING -
Life is a relationship between molecules.
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 -
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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 -
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.
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 -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
LINUS PAULING -
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
LINUS PAULING -
Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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 -
Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
LINUS PAULING