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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

Science is the search for truth.

You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

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

Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

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

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

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

Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency

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

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 immmorality.

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

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

If a doctor isn't 'up' on something, he's 'down' on it.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

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.

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

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

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

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

Do unto others 20% better than you'd expect them to do unto you to correct subjective error.

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

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

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.

[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?]
Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

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

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

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

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

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

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

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

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

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.