Nobel Quotes · Page 8

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds…

— Wole Soyinka

When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in…

— Rudy Giuliani

Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the…

— David Bennun

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.

— Jedediah Bila

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

— Richard P. Feynman

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make…

— Christopher Hitchens

Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works…

— Gao Xingjian

Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become…

— Ron Suskind

You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than…

— Peter Medawar

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that…

— James Rothman

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.

— Elie Wiesel

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

— John O'Keefe

“Mutlu olabilmek için her gün bir miktar edebiyatla ilgilenmem gerekiyor.”

— Orhan Pamuk

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified…

— Jose Saramago

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the…

— August Krogh

I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

— Rigoberta Menchu

The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's…

— David Bennun

America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only…

— Jimmy Carter

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize…

— Ava Helen Pauling

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al…

— Tim Pawlenty

The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But…

— C. Sommerville

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

— Tom Lehrer

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

— Herbert Simon

Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes…

— John Turner