It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much as 10 million times. It had to do this by lowering the energy of activation-the energy of forming the activated complex. It could do this by forming strong bonds with the activated complex, but only weak bonds with the reactants or products.

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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.

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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

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Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.

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Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

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If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

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Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

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Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency

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Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

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Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

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If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.

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I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

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Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

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The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

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Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

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Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

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