Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

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

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

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

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

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

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

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

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

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.

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.

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.

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.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

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.

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.

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

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.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

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