Linus Pauling

“I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' ... The twenty-five percent is for error.”

“By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients... you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.”

“You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.”

“Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity.”

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

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

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

“Do 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 for a better world.”

“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.”

“Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.”

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

“Life is a relationship between molecules.”

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

“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.”

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

“Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.”