Nobel Quotes · Page 3

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

— Michael O'Leary

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

— Saul Perlmutter

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

— Jane McGonigal

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

— Doris Lessing

I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising…

— Donna Strickland

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud

— Rachel Maddow

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

— Bill Gates

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

— Bertha von Suttner

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...]…

— Steven Chu

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark…

— Charles Glover Barkla

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that…

— James Rothman

I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm…

— Metta World Peace

With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the…

— Donald Trump

I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice -…

— Steven Chu

I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won…

— Carl Forti

“No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever be complete without an honourable and detailed reference to Pundit…

— Munindra Misra

The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending…

— David Bennun

The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves…

— David Bennun

Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us…

— Bob Tyrrell

The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me…

— Linda McQuaig

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with…

— Frank Pittman

We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences…

— Seth Klarman

Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.…

— Freeman Dyson

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al…

— Tim Pawlenty

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

— Max Fisher

“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“I came to speak ill of Swedish engineering, and so diddled myself out of a Nobel Prize.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Najib Razak

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.

— Allan Snyder

“You became the youngest person ever to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s version of the Nobel.”

— Edward Albee

I'm very honored and pleased to receive the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

— Tasuku Honjo

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Tom Lehrer

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

— Kailash Satyarthi