20 rare quotes from Hungarian scientists

Some quotes make you really think about the subject matter, others you’ll just pass by, feeling like you’ve read it at least a thousand times. Sometimes you stumble upon a good one, sometimes you really need one for a greeting card. These are some of the rarest quotes from Hungarian scientists, collected by tanarno.cafeblog.hu.

Quotes about happiness

“Rich is the person who has more money than desires, and poor is the person who has more desires than money… The key to happiness is not to acquire more, but to be content with what we have, and to fill the empty holes in our lives instead of enlarging them” – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel-prized biochemist

“The pessimist is such a man who is always right, but never happy” – Ede Teller, atom physicist

“It is of key importance to do things from time to time that is not of key importance” – László Mérő, psychologist-mathematician

“Life is too short to be a pessimist” – György Oláh, Nobel-prized chemist

“Some who is happy will make others happy as well, but if the well is empty, what will you draw from it?” – Farkas Bólyai, mathematician

Quotes about school, knowledge

“Man is the only being that is capable of constant thinking, thus making sure that chaos will strive even when his mind is at work.” – László Mérő

“To see things that no one else sees, and to think of things that no else thinks” – Albert Szent-Györgyi

“Books are meant to hold onto knowledge, while we are using our minds for better things” – Albert Szent-Györgyi

“When it comes to mathematics, you don’t understand things, rather you simply get used to them” – János Neumann, mathematician