I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are… — 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,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much… — 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… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do… — 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
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
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying… — 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
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