If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“A parent's only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel prize but the other gets robbed by a… — Samuel Halpern Copy Share Image
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The first woman who decided that tights are pants should get the Nobel Peace Prize. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that… — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are… — David Gross Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did.… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports… — Gagan Narang Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus,… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss? And… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who is 17, has become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. So a Pakistani… — Colin Jost Copy Share Image
Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“In other words, the rule about great scientific advances is that to make them you have to break the rules. Nobody has… — Joi Ito Copy Share Image
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere.… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have… — Lennart Nilsson Copy Share Image