Quotes from Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

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.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

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 to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

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.

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.

Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.

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.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

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.

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 pictured today by the keenest imagination.