Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Scientist
1893-09-16 – 1986-10-22
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was a Hungarian biochemist and Nobel laureate recognized for discoveries related to vitamin C and cellular respiration.
Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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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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This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
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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.
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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.
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
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Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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