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If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.
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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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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Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
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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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