Linus PaulingYou can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.373Death
Linus PaulingLife ... is a relationship between molecules. ✨ Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb (2001). Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers, p.1168, World Scientific374Life
Linus PaulingDo unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.374Politics
Linus PaulingIt 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 as 10 million times. It had to do this by lowering the ene… ▶342Time
Linus PaulingYou can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.333Thought
Linus PaulingWe may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high… ▶367HopeTime
Linus PaulingThe only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war. ✨ Linus Pauling (1964). Linus Pauling on Science and Peace: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture378Thought
Linus PaulingProvided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.334Philosophy
Linus PaulingJust one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.346HumanityLife
Linus PaulingI made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college libr… ▶291LifeReading
Linus PaulingI 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. … ▶368HumanityPolitics
Linus PaulingWhen an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Y… ▶358ReadingThought
Linus PaulingThe 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… ▶359Thought
Linus PaulingEvery aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.326Politics
Linus PaulingThe best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.349Thought
Linus PaulingThe nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of cell division and gr… ▶305Life
Linus PaulingOnly 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. ✨ Linu… ▶3410Death
Linus PaulingDo not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work f… ▶241LifePoliticsTruth
Linus Pauling..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter to some generally accepted… ▶3310Reading
Linus PaulingHeisenberg 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… ▶286Politics
Linus PaulingIt 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… ▶309Sadness
Linus PaulingI have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus I am able to draw on this auxi… ▶265HumanityThought
Linus PaulingDoes the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except wh… ▶233Philosophy
Linus PaulingSatisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.244LifeTruth
Linus PaulingI 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 genetics in recent years.211Thought
Linus PaulingScience 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… ▶255HumanityTruth
Linus PaulingIt will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the course of … ▶212Humanity
Linus Pauling...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make disco… ▶245HumanityLifeThought
Linus PaulingI think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that… ▶269LifeThought
Linus PaulingThe 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.258Humanity
