Ava Helen Pauling Quotes

United States, Human Rights Activist
December 24, 1903 – December, 7, 1981.

Ava Helen Pauling (née Miller) was an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Throughout her life, she was involved in various social movements including women's rights, racial equality, and international peace.

What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is my signature, and I hope it does some good.

Ava Helen Pauling
If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

Ava Helen Pauling

We think of this honor as an indication of the rightness of our position during these many years. You know, of course, my husband would have preferred to have remained quietly in his laboratory thinking about his scientific problems. However, people are more important that scientific truths.

Ava Helen Pauling
I suppose that I am responsible to some degree for Linus’s deciding to put so much of his effort into peace activities. In talking with him, I said I thought that it was of course important that he do his scientific work. But if the world were destroyed, then that work would not be of any value -- so he should take part of his time and devote it to peace work.

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