And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve. — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. — Amelie Nothomb 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
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. — William Faulkner 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
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
For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing… — Satyajit Ray 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
'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the… — Ralph W. Moss Copy Share Image
“I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little. [Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize… — Luis Federico Leloir Copy Share Image
“In our adventures, we have only seen our monsters more clearly and described his scales and fangs in new ways - ways… — Harold Varmus Copy Share Image
It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“I envy all authors who command words on paper. I do not. My English is simple, my gramma is flawed, so why… — Mikkel Skipper 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
“I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (…) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a… — Denys Johnson-Davies Copy Share Image
The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues… — Konrad Bloch Copy Share Image
“[Concerning] phosphorescent bodies, and in particular to uranium salts whose phosphorescence has a very brief duration. With the double sulfate of uranium… — Antoine Henri Becquerel Copy Share Image
Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon postulated that people can be divided into two groups: Maximizers and Satisficers. Whether they’re choosing a restaurant,… — Kyle Eschenroeder Copy Share Image
“Whenever we doubt our own ability to achieve, it is worthwile pondering the obstacles that others have overcome. To name a few...… — Andrew Matthews Copy Share Image
Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
“If you're from New Jersey,” Nathan had said, “and you write thirty books, and you win the Nobel Prize, and you live… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“One groundbreaking experiment was conducted by Daniel Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be… — Heinz Fischer Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image