I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but…

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

— Shuji Nakamura

I don't have any clue about the criteria, how the Nobel committee selects an individual for the prize.

— Abiy Ahmed

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly…

— Jay Michaelson

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

— Donald Trump

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management…

— Wangari Maathai

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

— Doris Lessing

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

— Steven Chu

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate.…

— Elie Wiesel

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee…

— Leon M. Lederman

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

— Joshua Lederberg

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees…

— C. V. Raman

“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.”

— Steven Magee

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money?…

— Mo Ibrahim

To become a token womanwhether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sistersis to become something…

— Anonymous