Linus Pauling Quotes

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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Game Harm Rival Science Search Truth Try
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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Believe Evil Force Goodness Greatness Humanity Military Moral Power World
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Fact Fly Science Yourself
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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Consequence Curiosity Discover Enthusiasm Imagination Interest Knowledge Man Result Science Wait
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Policy Sanity War World
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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Effort Moral Rejection Science Search Understand World
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.
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Errors Expectation Gold Mistake Rule Yourself
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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Development Formation Greatness Science Structure Thinking
You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
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Goodness Ideas Quantity Yourself
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
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Believe Complication Explanation Principle Science Simplicity
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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Best Goodness Ideas Teaching Way Yourself
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.
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College Myself Nature Study World
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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Cancer Organization People Research Support

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