Optimum Nutrition Is The Medicine Of Tomorrow.

Like Thousands Of Other Boys, I Had A Little Chemical Laboratory In Our Cellar And Think That Some Of Our Friends Thought Me A Bit Crazy.

If You Want To Have Good Ideas You Must Have Many Ideas.

It Was Obvious-to Me At Any Rate-that The Answer Was To Why An Enzyme Is Able To Speed Up A Chemical Reaction By As Much As 10 Million Times. It Had To Do This By Lowering The Energy Of Activation-the Energy Of Forming The Activated Complex. It Could Do This By Forming Strong Bonds With The Activated Complex, But Only Weak Bonds With The Reactants Or Products.

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.

[professor Pauling] Confesses That He Had Harboured The Feeling That Sooner Or Later He Would Be The One To Get The Dna Structure; And Although He Was Pleased With The Double-helix, He 'rather Wished The Idea Had Been His'.