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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 (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”
  • Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

  • 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 serologic problem in very different ways. He would ask, What do these experiments force us to believe about the nature of the world? I would ask, What is the most. simple and general picture of the world that we can formulate that is not ruled by these experiments? I realized that medical and biological investigators were not attacking their problems the same way that theoretical physicists do, the way I had been in the habit of doing.

  • 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 than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

  • 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, right, or center.

    Confused   War   Problem  
  • I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, extend your life and your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimun amounts, to supplement the vitamins you receive in your food.

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

  • Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

  • Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in one of which the electrons are in phase and out of phase. The energy of the system is successively transferred from one to the other - resonance!

    Two   Energy   Ordinary  
  • Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

    Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers”, p.1168, World Scientific
  • Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency

  • 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.

  • Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

    Science   Air   Facts  
  • 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 sacrifice myself? I am a scientist, I am supposed to be working on scientific things, so I don't need to put myself at risk by talking about these possibilities." And I have said that perhaps I'm just stubborn... I have said "I don't like anybody to tell me what to do or to think, except Mrs. Pauling."

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

    Ideas   Want   Good Ideas  
    "The Impact Of Linus Pauling On Molecular Biology" by Francis Crick, oregonstate.edu. 1995.
  • You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

  • The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

    War   World   Policy  
    Linus Pauling (1964). “Linus Pauling on Science and Peace: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture”
  • Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

  • 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 further applied to physiological problems it will be found that the significance of the hydrogen bond for physiology is greater than that of any other single structural feature.

    Linus Pauling (1960). “The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals: An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry”, p.450, Cornell University Press
  • But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

    "Science in Progress", Sixth Series, edited by George A. Baitsell, 1949.
  • I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.

    Science   Animal   Whales  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

    Military   Believe   Evil  
    Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
  • No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

    Linus Pauling (1987). “How to Live Longer and Feel Better”
  • Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

    Science   Games   Trying  
  • There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

  • 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, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

  • We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

    Life   Science   May  
    "Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences".
  • 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.

  • Science is the search for truth.

  • If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then each of these parts can serve as the mould for the production of a replica of the other part, and the complex of two complementary parts thus can serve as the mould for the production of duplicates of itself.

    Two   Molecules   Viruses  
    Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Biomolecular sciences”, p.1119, World Scientific
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