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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.
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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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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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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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
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Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
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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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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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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
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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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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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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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The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
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In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
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It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself
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Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
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