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.
LINUS PAULINGWe 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.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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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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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.
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Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
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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 between molecules.
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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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Science is the search for truth.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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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 best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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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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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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