I've been asked from time to time, "How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists?" And my answer has been that I am sure that I am not smarter than other scientists. I don't have any precise evaluation of my IQ, but to the extent that psychologists have said that my IQ is about 160, I recognize that there are one hundred thousand or more people in the United States that have IQs higher than that. So I have said that I think I think harder, think more than other people do, than other scientists. That is, for years, almost all of my thinking was about science and scientific problems that I was interested in.


Interview at Big Sur, California (11 November 1990)

Internet Archive Linus Pauling Interview -- page 3 / 9 -- Academy of Achievement


I've been asked from time to time, How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists? And my answer...

I've been asked from time to time, How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists? And my answer...

I've been asked from time to time, How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists? And my answer...

I've been asked from time to time, How does it happen that you have made so many discoveries? Are you smarter than other scientists? And my answer...