Linus Pauling — "Science is the search for truth, and engineering is the search for ways to make …"

"Every time you go to the doctor, the doctor asks you to take off your clothes, and then he looks at you, and he tells you what's wrong with you. But he doesn't know anything about you."

"I have always been a fighter, and I believe that it is important to stand up for what you believe in."

"The most important quality for a scientist is imagination."

"I have always been a scientist, and I believe that science is the best way to understand the world."

"I like people. I like animals, too—whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the hum…"