Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.”

“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.”