Clearly, this principle of self-complementarity: Pauling himself mentioned this point in his second Hitchcock Foundation Lecture, “Chemical Bonds in Biology,” given at the University of California at Berkeley, on January 17, 1983.

When I talked to Alex Rich and Jack Dunitz: I talked to Alex Rich on November 15, 2010, and to Jack Dunitz on November 23, 2010.

Peter explained further that: P. Pauling, 1973.

Everyone engages in inductive reasoning: In a series of seminal papers, Kahneman and Tversky discuss this topic in detail. See, eg, Kahneman and Tversky 1973, 1982. Also Kahneman, Slovic, and Tversky 1982, and Cosmides and Tooby 1996. An excellent popular account is Kahneman 2011. Schulz 2010, pp. 115–32, discusses beautifully some aspects of inductive reasoning in relation to being wrong.

“We can’t live in a state”: Interview to New Scientist; Else 2011.