Linus Pauling Quotes

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

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• Science is a search for truth-it is not a game in which one tries to best his opponent, to do harm to others.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on — whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made… 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.

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

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• Science is the search for 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 t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.

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

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• When 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. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself.

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Linus Pauling (11)

Birth:	28th February, 1901
Death:	19th August, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Biochemist, Chemist, Educator, Founder, Peace Activist

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