Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
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.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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I live by a rulebook of eating alkaline - no meat, no dairy, no gluten, I try to stay away from sugar - but I'll cheat when I want to since I'm a bit of a foodie.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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When a child begins to play games... he enters the gateway to reason and imagination together.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
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Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
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The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
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My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
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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.
