The best Quotes by Linus Pauling

The best Quotes by Linus Pauling

Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator.

The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas.

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California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

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New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

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We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

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The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

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Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

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I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

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What does daylight-saving time mean in Portland?
An extra hour of rain.

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They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Oregon - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Jerry: "That was some fantastic chow mein. And before you say that sounded racist, you're gonna ask the waiter how they say it."
Beth: "It's Panda Express, Honey, the waiter's from Portland."

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Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

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Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

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Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Optimism Pessimism

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer

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Nuclear Weapons

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

Stephen Hawking

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Knowledge Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

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Intelligence Silence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Experience Failures & Mistakes

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

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Life Motivation

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature has to be felt.

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I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin - last words - April 19th 1882

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Death Last Words

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Richard Feynman

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

Religion Science Doubt

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

René Descartes

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Thinking Latin Phrases

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

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Reason & Sanity Imagination

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

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Foolishness Technology Generations

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Wheeler

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