Linus Pauling

I have made a great discovery. I have found that there is a direct correlation between the amount of vitamin C that a person takes and his state of health.

We must have a world that is not based on force, but on justice and on law.

The time has come for humanity to set its sights on the abolition of war, just as it once set its sights on the abolition of slavery.

It is structure that we look for whenever we try to understand anything.

The modern theory of the chemical bond is one of the great intellectual achievements of the twentieth century.

I believe that the power of the human mind is almost unlimited.

The only way to be sure of doing something right the first time is to have a lot of experience doing it wrong.

The most important thing is to be motivated by curiosity and by the desire to understand the world.

There is no law of nature that prevents us from living to be 200 years old.

The human body is a molecular machine of great complexity.

I am not afraid to be wrong. I am afraid of being uninteresting.

The art of discovery is to see what everyone else has seen and think what no one else has thought.

The future of humanity depends on our ability to use science for good and not for evil.

A molecule is a small piece of the universe that has its own personality.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

I have always been interested in the application of scientific knowledge to the benefit of humanity.

The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

The only thing that can save the world is the moral force of world public opinion.

I believe that the human race has a great future, if we can avoid destroying ourselves.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'