All Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes
- 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… Afternoon
- A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Accident
- 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… Application
- I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in… Acid
- 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… Coherent
- It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to… Arm
- 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… Adaptation
- Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids. Dancing
- 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… Age
- 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,… Adapted
- "This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass… All
- This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly. Inspirational
- Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. Clear
- This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation. Basic
- Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with. Behave
- 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… Empty
- Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation. Artistic
- Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be… Beauty
- Life is a wondrous phenomenon. Inspirational
- To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could… Alone
- The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation. Age
- Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind. Doe
- Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. Cellular
- Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground. All
- A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it. Disease