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.
I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.
The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence - and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.
If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.
Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.
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