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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
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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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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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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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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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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If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
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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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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
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Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
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Life is a wondrous phenomenon.
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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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In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
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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 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 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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Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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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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A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.
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