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
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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.
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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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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 the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.
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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought
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Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
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Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
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So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
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Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.