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
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 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
I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it… — Shuji Nakamura 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 believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves… — John Lewis 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 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
When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that… — Stephen Colbert 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. — Henry Louis Gates 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
There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. — Catherine Camus 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
A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image