No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
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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Life is a relationship between molecules.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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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.
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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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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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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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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
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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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Science is the search for truth.
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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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
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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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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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Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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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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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
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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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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.
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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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