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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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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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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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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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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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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We are a little messianic about our comic books! We feel like they deserve to be more legitimate, they deserve to get more attention, they deserve to have better placement, and they deserve to have a broader audience.
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I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.
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The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you're involved with read them. That's what's tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don't want to get myself in trouble!
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I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.
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'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
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Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.
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My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
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All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
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I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
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Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.
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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.
