You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
Linus PaulingI try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
Linus PaulingI recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.
Linus PaulingWe must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism ... Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race.
Linus Pauling