The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGEvery aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
More Linus Pauling Quotes
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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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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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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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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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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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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’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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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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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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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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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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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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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.
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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
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