“I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.”

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling”

“I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century’s greatest chemist. No doubt about it.”

“No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.”

“I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.”

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

“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.”

“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.”

“Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.”

“You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.”

“The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas”