The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. Linus Pauling More Quotes by Linus Pauling More Quotes From Linus Pauling I 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 auxiliary memory bank. Moreover, there is a second way In which I get ideas ... I listen carefully to what my wife says, and in this way I often get a good idea. I recommend to ... young people ... that you make a permanent acquisition of an auxiliary memory bank that you can become familiar with and draw upon throughout your lives. Linus Pauling memorieslifescience I 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 would enable you to continue having this sort of joy. Linus Pauling enjoy-lifejobsthinking Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Linus Pauling airsciencefacts Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry. Linus Pauling chemistrytodayworld 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 immorality. Linus Pauling acceptanceworldideas Life ... is a relationship between molecules. Linus Pauling moleculeslifescience I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world. Linus Pauling knowswantedworld 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. Linus Pauling teachingwantideas 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. Linus Pauling medicinesimplebelieve 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. Linus Pauling naturesciencebelieve ..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 belief ("which may just be biased"), or because we do not understand the mechanism of the proposed treatment, or because it has come from an unconventional source. Linus Pauling agedarkrunning 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. Linus Pauling crazyboysscience Does 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 when the national leaders say to do so'? Linus Pauling leaderwarmean Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization. Linus Pauling mencivilizationthinking I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom. Linus Pauling sodiumtryingscience 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! Linus Pauling energyordinarytwo 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. Linus Pauling militaryevilbelieve We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race. Linus Pauling winningwarpeace 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. Linus Pauling vitaminsphysiciansdoctors It 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 the evolutionary process, and to illuminate the question of the origin of species. Linus Pauling illuminationdeterminationscience
