It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me.… — Willard Boyle Copy Share Image
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the… — Desmond Tutu 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
The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked… — Robert Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human… — Herbert A. Simon 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
We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, this young woman is me, a Nobel laureate. I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity,… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences… — John Cornforth 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
If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“¿Qué clase de paseo va a ser éste si me basta mirarte para saber que con vos me voy a empapar el… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say 'thank you' for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the… — Gerhard Herzberg Copy Share Image
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A… — Sune Bergstrom Copy Share Image