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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.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Age: 93 †
Born: 1893
Born: September 16
Died: 1986
Died: October 21
Biochemist
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I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.
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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
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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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Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
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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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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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A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
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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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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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Life is a wondrous phenomenon.
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
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In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
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We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
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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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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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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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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 you get sick from if you don't eat it.
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