Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.
[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.
Life. . . is a relationship between molecules.
Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in one of which the electrons are in phase and out of phase. The energy of the system is successively transferred from one to the other - resonance!
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.
We 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.
Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.
For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.
I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.