Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápoltwas a Hungarian American physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and entered Hungarian politics after the war...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 September 1893
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Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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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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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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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 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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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
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[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.
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This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
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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.