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Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt

Geburtstag: 16. September 1893
Todesdatum: 22. Oktober 1986

Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrápolt [nɒɟraːpoltɪ ˈsɛntɟørɟi ˈɒlbɛrt] war ein ungarisch-US-amerikanischer Mediziner, Biochemiker, Nobelpreisträger für Physiologie oder Medizin für die Isolierung der Ascorbinsäure .

Zitate Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt

„Life is water, dancing to the tune of macro molecules.“

— Albert Szent-Györgyi
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„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 charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.“

— Albert Szent-Györgyi
Attributed to Szent-Györgyi by :w:Gerald Holton (1978); cited in: Robert Cohen (1985) The Development of spatial cognition. p. 363.

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

— Albert Szent-Györgyi
Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in: IEEE (1985) Bridging the present and the future: IEEE Professional Communication Society conference record, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 16-18, 1985. p. 14.

„[When I joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton] I did this in the hope that by rubbing elbows with those great atomic physicists and mathematicians I would learn something about living matters. But as soon as I revealed that in any living system there are more than two electrons, the physicists would not speak to me. With all their computers they could not say what the third electron might do. The remarkable thing is that it knows exactly what to do. So that little electron knows something that all the wise men of Princeton don't, and this can only he something very simple.“

— Albert Szent-Györgyi
A Szent-Györgyi (1964) "Teaching and the Expanding Knowledge". Science 146 (1964): 1278-1279; cited in: Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) General System Theory. p. 5.

„Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought.“

— Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1957), Academic Press. Bioenergetics https://archive.org/details/bioenergetics00szen Part II: Biological structures and functions, p. 57

„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.“

— Albert Szent-Györgyi

„I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.“

— Albert Szent-Györgyi
In a television interview, ca. 1980. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi discusses religion http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/ResourceMetadata/WGBBMF, National Library of Medicine.