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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

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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Buda Pest
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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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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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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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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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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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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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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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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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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Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
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Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
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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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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
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A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
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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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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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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
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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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