Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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  A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

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  A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

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  A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

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  Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

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  I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

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  Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

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  Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

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  So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

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  The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.

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  The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

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  The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

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  This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

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  This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

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  Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

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  Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.