Linus Pauling Quotes

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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…
• You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second,…
• [Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although…
• Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
• It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much…
• An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a…
• I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if…
• It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are…
• 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…
• 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…
• Life ... is a relationship between molecules.
• The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of…
• We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
• During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the…
• Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the…
• The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I…
• I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore…
• Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
• 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,…
• 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…

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