The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image