Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The job of an anthropologist is to make the familiar strange and to make the strange familiar,

I think what we should do as historians is understand. And we can have our own views about how things turned out, but I think, in making judgements, we're getting into tricky territory.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

Without analysis, no synthesis.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

It all depends what you mean by.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Architecture is not about form

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.