Linus Pauling

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

I am a molecule chaser.

The greatest discovery I ever made was the discovery of the importance of vitamin C.

If you consider that you're well, you'll be well; if you consider that you're sick, you'll be sick.

Orthomolecular medicine is the preservation of good health and the treatment of disease by varying the concentrations in the human body of substances that are normally present in the body and are required for health.

The more that is known about the nature of the chemical bond, the more evident it becomes that the chemical bond is not just a pair of electrons held between two atomic nuclei.

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.

The resonance phenomenon is one of the most important concepts in modern structural chemistry.

War will cease when men refuse to fight.

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

The best that we can do is to be modest and to be humble, and to be aware that there is much that we do not know.

The chemical bond is not a physical thing. It does not exist. It is a concept, an idea, a way of thinking about the 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.

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

The progress of science is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity...

I have never liked the idea of a 'scientific method'. Scientists are not so naive as to believe that there is a single method that leads to the truth.

The world is a complicated place, and it is not given to us to understand it completely.

I am not a genius. I am just a man who is passionately curious.

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.