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

— Albert Szent-Györgyi

Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in: IEEE (1985) Bridging the present and the future: IEEE Professional Communication Society conference record, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 16-18, 1985. p. 14.

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Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology … 1893–1986

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