Best Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Top 8)

  1. Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
  2. Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
  3. A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
  4. 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.
  5. When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
  6. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
  7. Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
  8. [A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don't eat it.