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Linus Pauling
American quantum chemist and peace activist born in 1901. Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1954) for work on chemical bonds and the Nobel Peace Prize (1962), the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.
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The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them, but rather the one who suspects his faith in them and questions what he gathers from them.
-- Ibn al-Haytham
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
-- Galileo Galilei
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.
-- Richard Feynman
It is almost impossible to make a clear and accurate statement about chemistry without resorting to the language of weights and measures.
-- Antoine Lavoisier
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
-- Avicenna
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
-- Max Planck