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.
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.
To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to behave in an enormously complex fashion. It could probably carry as much information as DNA does. It has at least the potential for organizing itself in interesting ways.
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