Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápoltwas a Hungarian American physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II and entered Hungarian politics after the war...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 September 1893
real science suffering
If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.
learning thinking discovery
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
cells maintenance energy
A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
moving health healing
In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.
life dancing water
Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
mother ice-water water-of-life
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
life mistake eye
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.
life clever simple
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
mother water-of-life dancing
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
congratulations discovery innovation
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
science thinking discovery
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.