Albert Szent-Györgyi - The crazy ape (1970)

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With rare exceptions people are really interested in one thing only: themselves. Everybody, by necessity, is the centre of his own universe.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

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