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Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
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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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
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Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
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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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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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A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
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This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
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Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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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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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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