I try to identify myself with the atoms...I ask what I would do if I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.


Comment made to George Gray, the Rockefeller's resident science writer and publicist. Quoted in Thomas Hager, Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling (1995)

Linus Pauling Quotes

I try to identify myself with the atoms...I ask what I would do if I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

I try to identify myself with the atoms...I ask what I would do if I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

I try to identify myself with the atoms...I ask what I would do if I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

I try to identify myself with the atoms...I ask what I would do if I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.