Monday, July 29, 2019

I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

From Sudden Genius by Andrew Robinson.
One of the most admired scientists of the last century, Linus Pauling, was once asked by a student: ‘Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?’ This was back in the 1930s, two or three decades before Pauling would win two Nobel Prizes, one for chemistry, the other for peace. Pauling thought for a moment and replied: ‘Well, David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.’

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