Albert Szent-Györgyi said this quote

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

~ Albert Szent-Györgyi

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

~ Albert Szent-Györgyi

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

~ Albert Szent-Györgyi

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.

~ Albert Szent-Györgyi