Linus Pauling

“How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists ?”

“It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million or 40 million people because of a dispute between two nations who are running things, or decisions made by the people who really are running things. It no longer makes sense. Nobody wins. Nobody benefits from destructive war of this sort and there is all of this human suffering.”

“Everyone should know that the " war on cancer " is largely a fraud, and that the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.”

“The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war . Nobel Lecture for The Nobel Peace Prize 1962 (11 December 1963).”

“The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used”

“Planck ’s constant and the quantum theory that is built around it are of extreme importance for chemistry”

“We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve international disputes by the application of man's power of reason in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man. We must solve them by arbitration , negotiation, and the development of international law , the making of international agreements that will do justice to all nations and to all peoples and will benefit all nations and to all people. Now is the time to start. Debating Edward Teller , in The Nuclear Bomb Tests...Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED”

“We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins , nucleic acids , polysaccharides , and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry , involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine. Nobel Lecture (11 December 1954).”

“Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.”

“A substance showing resonance between two or more valence”