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..the Truly Fraudulent Claims Must Be Discarded. But Novel Methods Of Therapy Should Not Be Rejected Because They Are Novel, Or Because They Run Counter To Some Generally Accepted Belief ("which May Just Be Biased"), Or Because We Do Not Understand The Mechanism Of The Proposed Treatment, Or Because It Has Come From An Unconventional Source.

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.

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.

We May, I Believe, Anticipate That The Chemist Of The Future Who Is Interested In The Structure Of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, Polysaccharides, And Other Complex Substances With High Molecular Weight Will Come To Rely Upon A New Structural Chemistry, Involving Precise Geometrical Relationships Among The Atoms In The Molecules And The Rigorous Application Of The New Structural Principles, And That Great Progress Will Be Made, Through This Technique, In The Attack, By Chemical Methods, On The Problems Of Biology And Medicine.

Science Is The Search For Truth.