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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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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[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.
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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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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 paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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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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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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