63 Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

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.