"If I go out into nature, into the……" — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"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."
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46 Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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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.…
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected…
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I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was…
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It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my…
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and…
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Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
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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…
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We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself…
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"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my…
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her…
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We…
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The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in…
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There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good…
— Dan Barker
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When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.
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We ask the Blessed Virgin for the gift of conversion for all Christians, so that they may announce and give…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine…
— Joseph Alsop
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The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent…
— Robert Adams
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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some…
— Virginia Woolf
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We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy…
— Unknown Author
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Each time the dharma moved into a different civilization or historical period, it faced a twofold challenge: to maintain its…
— Stephen Batchelor
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
— David Berlinski
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