Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
LINUS PAULINGLike 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.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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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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Only 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.
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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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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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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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