Linus Pauling quotes

Linus Pauling was an American chemist, biochemist, and peace activist known for his groundbreaking work in quantum chemistry and molecular biology. His research on the nature of the chemical bond changed the face of modern chemistry. He remains one of the few people to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes, in Chemistry and Peace. Here are 56 of his quotes:

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war. (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. View quote
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. View quote
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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. View quote
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The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. View quote
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Linus Pauling
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. View quote
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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. View quote
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I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimun amounts, to supplement the vitamins you receive in your food. (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. View quote
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We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine. View quote
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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City. View quote
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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. View quote
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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years. View quote
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. View quote
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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.The time has now come for morality to take its proper place in the conduct of world affairs; the time has now come for the nations of the world to submit to the just regulation of their conduct by international law. View quote
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A substance showing resonance between two or more valence-bond structures does not contain molecules with the configurations and properties usually associated with these structures. View quote
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. View quote
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Just think of the differences today. A young person gets interested in chemistry and is given a chemical set. But it doesn't contain potassium cyanide. It doesn't even contain copper sulfate or anything else interesting because all the interesting chemicals are considered dangerous substances. View quote
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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow. View quote
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