Linus Pauling: A Centenary Exhibit

The Linus Pauling Institute


Located on the OSU campus since 1996, LPI continues research into the role that vitamins, micronutrients and other dietary constituents play in human aging and degenerative diseases, including heart disease, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

 
 
 

Advice to Students


"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. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate - may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical - always think for yourself."

[Excerpt from Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker, Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager, eds.]

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