Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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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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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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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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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
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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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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 believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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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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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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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.
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