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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Age: 93 †
Born: 1893
Born: September 16
Died: 1986
Died: October 21
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If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.
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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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The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
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Life is a wondrous phenomenon.
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Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
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[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.
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Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
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Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.
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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
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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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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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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.
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Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
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