Research is the live heart of the scientific life…

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.

— Ben Bernanke

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

— Allan Snyder

[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American…

— Sjon

“If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother”

— E.Mavis Hetherington

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

— Kathy Lette

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

— Patrick Modiano

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

— Jairam Ramesh

There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself…

— David Bennun

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Enrico Fermi

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

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

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

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

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