Linus Pauling: Quotes about ideas and thoughts

Linus Pauling was American scientist. Explore interesting quotes on idea.

Linus Pauling: 38 quotes 4 likes

“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”

Linus Pauling

Variant: The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Way , Idea

“The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.The time has now come for morality to take its proper place in the conduct of world affairs; the time has now come for the nations of the world to submit to the just regulation of their conduct by international law.”

Linus Pauling

[No More War!, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1962, 209]
1940s-1960s

World , Law , Idea , Time

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.”

Linus Pauling

As quoted by Francis Crick in his presentation "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" http://oregonstate.edu/dept/Special_Collections/subpages/ahp/1995symposium/crick.html (1995).
1990s

Idea , Learning