Quotes from Linus Pauling

I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

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.

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

Science is the search for truth.

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.

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

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. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

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