If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my…

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

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

— Bertha von Suttner

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

— T. S. Eliot

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

— Abdus Salam

Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of…

— Vivian Gornick

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot…

— Sune Bergstrom

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Janet Maslin

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be…

— Andy Partridge

I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on…

— Juan Somavia

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now…

— Doris Lessing

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

— Frances Arnold

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi