Albert Szent-Gyorgyi quotes

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.”
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life is water, dancing to the tune of macro molecules.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research means going out into the unknown with the hope of finding something new to bring home.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The basic texture of research consists of dreams into which the threads of reasoning, measurement, and calculation are woven.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi