Albert Szent-Györgyi Quote

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.


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


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...

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...

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...

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...