Quotes by Linus Pauling

About Linus Pauling:

Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. New Scientist reportedly called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time, and as of 2000, he was rated the 16th most important scientist in history. Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology.
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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

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 r...

Linus Pauling

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

Linus Pauling

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.

Linus Pauling

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

Linus Pauling

If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.

Linus Pauling

...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and is his prophet.

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I realized that more and more I was saying, 'It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million or 40 million people because of a dispute between two nations who are running things, or d...

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I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by and may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

Linus Pauling

During the time that gave me an education in the field of immunology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the serologic problem in very different ways. He would ask, What do these experiments force us to believe about the nature of the wor...

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

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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.

Linus Pauling

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

Linus Pauling

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

Linus Pauling

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 important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that yo...

Linus Pauling

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

Linus Pauling

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

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.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameLinus Pauling
  • DescriptionAmerican scientist
  • BornFebruary 28, 1901
  • DiedAugust 19, 1994
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionChemist; Physicist; Esperantist
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize; Guggenheim Fellowship; Roebling Medal; Nobel Prize In Chemistry; Humanist Of The Year; Gandhi Peace Award; Willard Gibbs Award; NAS Award In Chemical Sciences