Linus Pauling Quotes

You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

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.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

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.

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.

Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

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.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

Humanism 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.

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.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

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.

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.

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.

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

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.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

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.

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

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.

Science is the search for truth.

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.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling