A good scientist thinks logically and accurately when conditions call for logical and accurate thinking—but so does any other good worker when he has a sufficient number of well-founded facts to serve as the basis for the accurate, logical induction of generalizations and the subsequent deduction of consequences.
— Linus Pauling Modern

Chemical bond theory, peace activism

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On the nature of scientific thought

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1943 (Tomorrow magazine)

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