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Linus Pauling1901–1994

We must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve international disputes by the application of man’s power of reason in a way that is worthy of the dignity of man.

Linus Pauling on war and peace

Debating Edward Teller, in The Nuclear Bomb Tests…Is Fallout Overrated? : Fallout and Disarmament KQED-TV, San Francisco (20 February 1958).

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Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be.
Lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.” (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
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I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe — and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.” (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
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When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect.
Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (2001) by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton1885–1945

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