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Even pure truth, which has no application... elevates life.

— Albert Szent-Györgyi The Crazy Ape (1970)

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

Albert Szent-Györgyi (1957)

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

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

to Szent-Györgyi in: IEEE (1985)

The great hope of mankind is still the United Nations.

The Crazy Ape (1970)

[T]here is only one medicine that will be effective against drug use: a livible, a restoration of faith in life—its dignity, value and longevity. Police raids and jail terms are not the answer.

The Crazy Ape (1970)

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

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