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
Topics: Ideas
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
—Linus Pauling
Topics: Satisfaction, Curiosity
Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.
—Linus Pauling
Topics: Science, Truth, Problem-solving
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
Topics: Try, Joy, Think, Life, Doing, Decide
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
—Linus Pauling
To have good ideas, you have to have a lot of ideas.
—Linus Pauling
Topics: Ideas
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
—Linus Pauling
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