Nobel Quotes · Page 5

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

— Orhan Pamuk

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag…

— Desmond Tutu

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

— Kathy Lette

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

— Jairam Ramesh

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for…

— John F. Kennedy

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a…

— Martin Firrell

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.

— Frances Arnold

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil…

— Mairead Corrigan

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and…

— Severo Ochoa

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate…

— Sun Myung Moon

“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial…

— Nicolaas Bloembergen

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in…

— John Steinbeck

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize…

— Ava Helen Pauling

Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the…

— David Bennun

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it…

— Shuji Nakamura

The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes…

— Noam Chomsky

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything…

— Hershel Shanks

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of…

— Glenn Greenwald

If I could get every single cancer genome sequence that has been sequenced; if I could ever put it in one repository,…

— Joe Biden

The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a…

— Mike Huckabee

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works…

— Gao Xingjian

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

— Rigoberta Menchu

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

— Henry Louis Gates

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

— Barry Marshall

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

— Stephen Hawking

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

— Richard Dawkins

President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.

— Moon Jae-in

“A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude. It pounces. —Wole Soyinka, Sub-Saharan Africa’s first Nobel Laureate”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“Excruciatingly, Obama’s fellow Nobel Laureates turned on him as well. More”

— Luke Harding

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Jay Leno

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

— Michael Pollan

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

— Naguib Mahfouz

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.

— Max Fisher

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

— David Eddings

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.

— Betty Dodson

I think they should continue the policy of not giving a Nobel Prize for paneling.

— Jack Handey

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus