If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel prize but the other gets robbed by a… — Samuel Halpern Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my… — Wolfgang Ketterle Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself --… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In a recent study comparing every Nobel Prize–winning scientist from 1901 to 2005 with typical scientists of the same era, both groups… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
“Just after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (who later won the Nobel Prize) observed, in Istanbul, the… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
“Yunus, now a famous Nobel Prize winner, was invited to meet with the CEO of Adidas, who wanted to understand the concept… — Eric H.F. Law Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be… — Heinz Fischer Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The idea of a computer winning the Nobel Prize for physics is not too unlikely, citing a computer as joint recipient. It's… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss? And… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes… — John Turner Copy Share Image