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[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Age: 93 †
Born: 1893
Born: September 16
Died: 1986
Died: October 21
Biochemist
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Albert Imre Szentgyörgyi
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Whatever a man does he must do first in his 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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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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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
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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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If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
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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 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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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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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
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Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
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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 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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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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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
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The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
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Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
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