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.
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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.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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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.
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Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
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The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.
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The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
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