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Albert Szent Gyorgyi

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

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"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."

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"My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part."

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"My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident."

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"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

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"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."

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"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."

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"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."

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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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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"Whatever man does he must do first in his mind."
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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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"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think 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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"Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."
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"Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground."
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