Albert Szent-Gyorgyi de Nagyraolt quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic Science.

"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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Basic research may seem very expensive. I am a well-paid scientist. My hourly wage is equal to that of a plumber, but sometimes my research remains barren of results for weeks, months or years and my conscience begins to bother me for wasting the taxpayer"s money. But in reviewing my life"s work, I have to think that the expense was not wasted. Basic research, to which we owe everything, is relatively very cheap when compared with other outlays of modern society. The other day I made a rough calculation which led me to the conclusion that if one were to add up all the money ever spent by man on basic research, one would find it to be just about equal to the money spent by the Pentagon this past year."
Found in the topic Research.

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
Found in the topic Discovery.

Interesting Quotes

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.Dick Brandon

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.C. S. Lewis - English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963)