Hungarian - Scientist | September 16, 1893 - October 22, 1986
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
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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.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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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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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.
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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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So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
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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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