Linus Pauling

Every man of science has some favorite hypothesis which he cultivates, and with which he is so intimately bound up, that he would be glad to see it universally adopted.

I think that we should make the world safe for differences.

I believe that there is a way to make the world better, and that we have a responsibility to find it.

Do not let your special talents in chemistry, your love for chemistry, keep you from developing your talents in other fields. Do not let yourself be a narrow specialist.

The only way to cope with a problem is to go right at it, and the only way to solve a problem is to keep on working at it until you've solved it.

I believe that the scientist has a special responsibility. He has a special responsibility to use his knowledge for the benefit of mankind.

I have spent a good deal of my life trying to get people to eat more vitamin C.

You can't just have a good idea. You have to have a lot of good ideas.

I am convinced that there is no disease that cannot be cured by a proper intake of vitamin C.

The greatest discoveries of science have always been made by those who were not afraid to challenge the existing paradigms.

Science is the search for truth, and engineering is the search for ways to make things work.

I have always been interested in the nature of things, and especially in the nature of life.

I believe that the future of humanity depends on our ability to cooperate and to solve the problems that confront us.

I am a firm believer in the power of the human mind to solve problems.

I am not afraid to be wrong, because I know that I can learn from my mistakes.

The most important thing in science is to ask the right questions.

I have always been a pacifist, and I believe that war is never the answer.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

I believe that every human being has the potential to be a creative genius.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.