Nobel Quotes

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

— 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 --…

— Vivian Gornick

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

— 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…

— Sune Bergstrom

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

— 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…

— Andy Partridge

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

— 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…

— Doris Lessing

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

— Enrico Fermi

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— David Bennun

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

— Jairam Ramesh

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

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

— Patrick Modiano

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

— Kathy Lette

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate…

— Naguib Mahfouz

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold

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

— Sjon

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a…

— John Steinbeck