Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle.

Birth: September 16, 1893 - Death: October 22, 1986

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

Topic(s): Ifs , Men , Real

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

Topic(s): Matter , Mother , Water

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Topic(s): Problem , Clear , Knowledge

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

Topic(s): Energy , Sun , Source

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Topic(s): Men , Mind , Firsts

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

Topic(s): Thinking , Eye , Science

[A vitamin is] a substance you get sick from if you don’t eat it.

Topic(s): Ifs , Eating , Sick

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.