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

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into chari…

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi