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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
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The coming century is probably going to be one in which the amount of suffering reaches its maximum.
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I try to identify myself with the atoms...I ask what I would do if I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
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Every aspect of the world today — even politics and international relations — is affected by chemistry.
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The scientist, if he is to be more than a plodding gatherer of bits of information, needs to exercise an active imagination.
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I miss the old days, when nearly every problem in X-ray crystallography was a puzzle that could be solved only by much thinking.
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Chemistry is wonderful! I feel sorry for people who don't know anything about chemistry. They are missing an important source of happiness.
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We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
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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.
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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
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It is the atomic bomb which is responsible for my being here tonight - just as the atomic bomb may be responsible for our all not being here a few years from now.
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I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest development in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.
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Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.
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I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.
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A substance showing resonance between two or more valence-bond structures does not contain molecules with the configurations and properties usually associated with these structures.
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I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: "Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you." … The twenty-five percent is for error.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
February 28, 1901
Died:
August 19, 1994
(aged 93)
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