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“You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.”

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Linus Pauling was a renowned chemist born on February 28, 1901, in the United States. He made significant contributions to the fields of chemical bonding theory, molecular structure, and quantum chemistry. Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for his outstanding achievements in chemistry and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his efforts in the peace movement. more

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