Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
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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 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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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
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A vitamin is a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.
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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?
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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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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
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The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
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Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
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Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
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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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Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.
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Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
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I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
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Life is a wondrous phenomenon.
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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.