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 PAULINGBy 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.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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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.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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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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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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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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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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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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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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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.
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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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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.
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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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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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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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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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Science is the search for truth.
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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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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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