Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise. — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second. — Peter C. Doherty Copy Share Image
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in… — Pierre Curie Copy Share Image
“Thoughts thoughts. Are they not mine? I think, I write, I type. Thoughts. Are they wise? Let truth be told in words,… — Edna Stewart Copy Share Image
My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical… — Haldan Keffer Hartline Copy Share Image
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on… — Charles Nicolle Copy Share Image
“There is a story about Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. One day his older brother died, and a newspaper got the… — Alan A. Lew Copy Share Image
I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom… — Howard Florey Copy Share Image
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
