Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
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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I don't think I have a signature.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I think there is lot to be said about eating dinner and not having the distraction of the TV.
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If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.
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Bravery is often too sharp a spur.
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I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.
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I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.
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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.
