Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Congratulations

Creativity

Inspirational

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.

Jobs

Life

Science

I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard’s commandment, “don’t lie if you don’t have to.” I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

Home

Lying

Science

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.

Knowledge

Science

Simple

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

Healing

Health

Moving

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.

Lasts

Mother

Water

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

Cows

Knowledge

Milk

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

Chemistry

Mechanic

Physics

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

Eye

Science

Thinking

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

Occupation

Research

Systematic

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Bears

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Chemistry

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Dancing

Dark

Death

Discovery

Empty

Energy

Eye

Fabric

Healing

Health

Home

Hydrogen

Ice Water

Inspirational

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Judging

Key To Happiness

Keys

Knowledge

Lasts

Life

Lying

Mechanic

Men

Milk

Mother

Moving

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Perfect

Physics

Principles

Real

Research

Science

Simple

Stage

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Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

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.

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

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.

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

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

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

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

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