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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.
It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
The country which is in advance of the rest of the world in chemistry will also be foremost in wealth and in general prosperity.
Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.
It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.
In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.
It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.
I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
[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.
Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.
I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.
God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.
I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.
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.
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.
A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
The advice I was given was just to make sure you look out of the window occasionally. It's something no astronaut ever gets tired of doing.
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.
The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.
I don't classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn't as though I paid and had a holiday out of it - although I had a fab time.
I operated a periscopic TV camera so the commander, Anatoly Artsebarsky, could establish where we were heading. It is real teamwork on Soyuz.
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.