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We May Say That Life Has Borrowed From Inanimate Processes The Same Basic Mechanism Used In Producing Those Striking Structures That Are Crystals, With Their Beautiful Plane Faces.

It Has Been Recognized That Hydrogen Bonds Restrain Protein Molecules To Their Native Configurations, And I Believe That As The Methods Of Structural Chemistry Are Further Applied To Physiological Problems It Will Be Found That The Significance Of The Hydrogen Bond For Physiology Is Greater Than That Of Any Other Single Structural Feature.

Does The Commandment 'thou Shalt Not Kill' Mean Nothing To Us? Are We To Interpret It As Meaning 'thou Shalt Not Kill Except On The Grand Scale,' Or 'thou Shalt Not Kill Except When The National Leaders Say To Do So'?

The Mccarthy Period Came Along...and Many Of The Other Scientists Who Had Been Working On These Same Lines Gave Up. Probably Saying "why Should I Sacrifice Myself? I Am A Scientist, I Am Supposed To Be Working On Scientific Things, So I Don't Need To Put Myself At Risk By Talking About These Possibilities." And I Have Said That Perhaps I'm Just Stubborn... I Have Said "i Don't Like Anybody To Tell Me What To Do Or To Think, Except Mrs. Pauling."

Satisfaction Of One's Curiosity Is One Of The Greatest Sources Of Happiness In Life.