Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULINGSatisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULINGProvided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
LINUS PAULINGDo unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
LINUS PAULINGNo evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
LINUS PAULINGIn 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.
LINUS PAULINGI 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.
LINUS PAULINGI believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
LINUS PAULINGIf 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 PAULINGI 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 PAULINGScience 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 PAULINGHumanism 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.
LINUS PAULINGJust one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
LINUS PAULINGThe best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
LINUS PAULINGScience is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
LINUS PAULINGBut 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 PAULINGThere is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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