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Linus Pauling
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“A substance showing resonance between two or more valence-bond structures does not contain molecules with the configurations and properties usually associated with these structures.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Nature of Chemical Bond (1939), Ch 14. A Summarizing Discussion of Resonance and Its Significance for Chemistry.
“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.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture at Yale University, "Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future." (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
“We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nobel Lecture (11 December 1954).
“We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve international disputes by the application of man's power of reason in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man. We must solve them by arbitration, negotiation, and the development of international law, the making of international agreements that will do justice to all nations and to all peoples and will benefit all nations and to all people. Now is the time to start.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Debating Edward Teller, in The Nuclear Bomb Tests...Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED-TV, San Francisco (20 February 1958).
“Planck’s constant and the quantum theory that is built around it are of extreme importance for chemistry—we may well be justified in saying that quantum theory is of greater importance to chemistry than to physics ... there is no part of chemistry that does not depend, in its fundamental theory, upon quantum principles.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quantum theory and chemistry. In Frank, W. (ed.) Max Planck Festschrift, pp. 385–388. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin (1959)
“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.The time has now come for morality to take its proper place in the conduct of world affairs; the time has now come for the nations of the world to submit to the just regulation of their conduct by international law.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nobel Lecture for The Nobel Peace Prize 1962 (11 December 1963).
“Everyone should know that the "war on cancer" is largely a fraud, and that the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As far as women are concerned, I am old-fashioned enough to like the idea of a woman's managing the household. This is an important activity. A woman does not have to be a bank vice-president to find happiness. I should think routine work like sitting at a desk writing letters, making reports, or punching data into computers would be much less interesting and satisfying than running a home.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Lifelong Quest for Peace (1992) by Linus Pauling and Daisaku Ikeda
“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.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Francis Crick in his presentation "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" (1995).
“I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Linus Pauling In His Own Words (1995) by Barbara Marinacci .
“Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Linus Pauling In His Own Words (1995) by Barbara Marinacci.
“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.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (2001) by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager.
“What astonished me was the very low toxicity of a substance that has such very great physiological power. A little pinch, 5 mg, every day, is enough to keep a person from dying of pellagra, but it is so lacking in toxicity that ten thousand times as much can be taken without harm.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement about vitamin B3, (either niacin or niacinamide), in How to Live Longer and Feel Better (1986), Avon Books, , p. 24.
“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.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pauling's reply to an audience question about his ethical system, following his lecture circa 1961 at Monterey Peninsula College, in Monterey, California.
“I realized that more and more I was saying, "It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million or 40 million people because of a dispute between two nations who are running things, or decisions made by the people who really are running things. It no longer makes sense. Nobody wins. Nobody benefits from destructive war of this sort and there is all of this human suffering." And Einstein was saying the same thing of course. So that is when we decided — my wife and I — that first, I was pretty effective as a speaker. Second, I better start boning up, studying these other fields so that nobody could stand up and say, "Well, the authorities say such and such”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview at Big Sur, California (11 November 1990).
“I've been asked from time to time, "How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists?" And my answer has been that I am sure that I am not smarter than other scientists. I don't have any precise evaluation of my IQ, but to the extent that psychologists have said that my IQ is about 160, I recognize that there are one hundred thousand or more people in the United States that have IQs higher than that. So I have said that I think I think harder, think more than other people do, than other scientists. That is, for years, almost all of my thinking was about science and scientific problems that I was interested in.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview at Big Sur, California (11 November 1990).
“Just think of the differences today. A young person gets interested in chemistry and is given a chemical set. But it doesn't contain potassium cyanide. It doesn't even contain copper sulfate or anything else interesting because all the interesting chemicals are considered dangerous substances. Therefore, these budding young chemists don't get a chance to do anything engrossing with their chemistry sets. As I look back, I think it is pretty remarkable that Mr. Ziegler, this friend of the family, would have so easily turned over one-third of an ounce of potassium cyanide to me, an eleven-year-old boy.”
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Linus Pauling In His Own Words (1995) by Barbara Marinacci, p. 29.