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“ ”If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
About Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28 1901 – August 19 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time. For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of five people to have won more than one Nobel Prize (the others being Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Frederick Sanger, and Karl Barry Sharpless) and one of two people to be awarded Nobel Prizes in different fields, the other being Marie Curie.
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If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.
Additional quotes by Linus Pauling
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
If a doctor isn't 'up' on something, he's 'down' on it.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling