Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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  • Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
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  • A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
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  • Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
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  • 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.
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  • Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.
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  • Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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