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"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."

"Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident."

"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."

"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
Explore more quotes by Albert Szent Gyorgyi

"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."

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought."

"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."

"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."

"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."

"Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money."

"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."
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