Linus Pauling: Year after year I have found great pleasure in thinking of something new about the
world in answering a question. When Ernest Lawrence got married, the fellow who invented
the cyclotron at Berkeley, I was an usher at the wedding in 1931. I drove back in
the car with some people and I said I was feeling happy because I had in my pocket
a crystal of sulvanite, Cu3VS4. And I knew what, I had just determined the structure, I knew what the structure
of this was and it was a very striking structure, anomalous, it didn't fit in with
my ideas about the sulfide mineral. But I knew what the structure was, nobody else
knows, nobody in the world knows what the structure is and they won't know until I
tell them. This is an example of the feeling of pleasure that I had on discovering
something new in the world.
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Creator: Linus Pauling Associated: Ernest O. Lawrence Clip ID: 1991v.9-knew
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