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Ava Helen Pauling
(1903 - 1981)
American humanitarian.
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Science Quotes by Ava Helen Pauling (1 quote)
If the double helix was so important, how come you didn’t work on it?
— Ava Helen Pauling
Eva Helen Pauling to her husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins, at a History of Science conference (1990). Quote contributed by W. H. Brock, in W. F.Bynum and Roy Porter (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 485.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
