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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

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
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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Evidence Food Goodness Health Medicine
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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Cancer Organization People Research Support
Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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Future Medicine Nutrition
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.
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Consequence Curiosity Discover Enthusiasm Imagination Interest Knowledge Man Result Science Wait
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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Believe Complication Explanation Principle Science Simplicity
Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
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Life Property Relationship Science
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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Curiosity Greatness Happiness Life Reality Satisfaction
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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Identity Myself Science Try
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
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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Age Believe Health Life Practice Time Youth
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 have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Myself Possible 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
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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Curiosity Description Discover Enthusiasm Imagination Interest
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
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
Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Life One Liner Relationship Science
Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
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Game Harm Rival Science Search Truth Try
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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Best Goodness Ideas Inspirational Success Way
There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Harm Radiance Safety
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Fact Fly Science Yourself
Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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Cancer Mistake War
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Policy Sanity War World
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
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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College Myself Nature Study World
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Agreement Goodness Nation

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