Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
LINUS PAULINGYou can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
-
-
Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
LINUS PAULING -
No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
LINUS PAULING -
Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.
LINUS PAULING -
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 -
Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
LINUS PAULING -
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
LINUS PAULING -
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.
LINUS PAULING -
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 PAULING -
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.
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.
LINUS PAULING