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… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.” — Albert Szent-Györgyi Copy Share Image
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… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
