Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
Interpretation
Chemistry influences various facets of the modern world, including politics and international relations.
In this quote, Linus Pauling emphasizes the integral role that chemistry plays in shaping contemporary society. He suggests that our understanding of chemical principles can extend beyond mere scientific inquiry, influencing decisions and interactions on a global scale in realms such as politics and diplomacy. This highlights the interconnectedness of scientific knowledge and its impact on societal structures and relationships.
In practice
In a discussion about climate change, one might quote Pauling to emphasize the chemistry behind environmental issues.
Although physicians, as part of their training, are taught that the dosage of a drug that is prescribed for the patient must be very carefully determined and controlled, they seem to have difficulty in remembering that the same principle applies to the vitamins.
I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.
Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'
It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
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