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The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
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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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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Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
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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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In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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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 vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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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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Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
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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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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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If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
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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 is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
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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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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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