Linus Pauling Life Quotations

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.

Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of cell division and growth, that they participate In the transmission of hereditary characters, and that they are important constituents of viruses. An understanding of the molecular structure of the nucleic acids should be of value In the effort to understand the fundamental phenomena of life.

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.