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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(16 Sep 1893 - 22 Oct 1986)
Hungarian-American biochemist who was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 'for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid.
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Science Quotes by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (3)
A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
[His definition of a vitamin.]
[His definition of a vitamin.]
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Attributed.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Bioenergetics Part 2, 57. Quoted in I.J. Good, The Scientist Speculates (1963), 15.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure, and fourth, money.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Quoted in obituary, 'Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Dead; Research Isolated Vitamin C''. Walter Sullivan, New York Times (25 Oct 1986), 9.
See also: | Brain (61) | Eye (16) | Machine (24) | Measurement (68) | Money (71) | Research (221) | See (7) | Thinking (58)
