Linus Pauling — "I believe that there is no such thing as an 'unimportant' discovery."

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

"The human body can make a number of substances, but it cannot make vitamin C."

"Anybody could see that quantum mechanics must lead to the tetrahedral carbon atom, because we have it. But the equations were so complicated that I never could be sure that I could present the argumen…"

"If there were nobody in the world but politicians, I would feel that there was no hope for mankind, no hope for civilization, no hope for the world."

"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."