The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
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
You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in… — Evel Knievel Copy Share Image
Maybe if you win a Nobel Prize in economics, you make a lot of money by giving talks... but not in my… — Wolfgang Ketterle Copy Share Image
“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be… — John Ritter 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
To become a token womanwhether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sistersis to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
I believe that even an airport can be an inspiring place for an artist. A Nobel Prize laureate once said something along… — Isa Genzken Copy Share Image
I received many prizes of course before the Nobel Prize and this is probably the last prize I get. But I felt… — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
If you tell someone, 'Hey, your daughter is going to win a Nobel Prize someday,' it makes it less likely. If you… — Vivienne Ming 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
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
“In 1986, Buchanan was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics. Liberal economists were aghast. Robert Lekachman, for instance, lambasted Buchanan for reducing… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The “dual economy” paradigm, originally proposed in 1955 by Sir Arthur Lewis, still shapes the way that most social scientists think about… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Back at home, after some prodding from Tereza, he admitted that he had been jealous watching her dance with a colleague of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Organic farming is environmentally friendlier to every acre of land. But it requires _more_ acres. The trade-off is a harsh one. Would… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on… — Saul Perlmutter Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The first thought inside whose mind has it appeared? He should be awarded the Nobel Prize for originality! — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I think they should continue the policy of not giving a Nobel Prize for paneling. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image