Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”

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

“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.”

“A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.”

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

“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.”