Nobel Quotes · Page 3

“Indian confronts mining industry, wins 'Green Nobel”

— Anonymous

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

— Philip Warren Anderson

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

— Sjon

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

— Lewis Schiff

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Tom Lehrer

I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel…

— Ron Paul

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Orhan Pamuk

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

— Charles H. Townes

As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

— Wole Soyinka

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus,…

— David Bennun

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center…

— Vincent Canby

The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on…

— Richard Dawkins

“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss? And…

— Mouloud Benzadi

I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I…

— Stephen Dobyns

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic…

— Max Perutz

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people…

— Sophie Hannah

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple…

— George Wald

There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing…

— Jack Steinberger

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

— Gao Xingjian

There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should…

— Raul Labrador

The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending…

— David Bennun

The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves…

— David Bennun

Possess the "Nobel Factor": Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese…

— Warren G. Bennis

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me…

— Marco Rubio

I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel…

— Nadia Murad

I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising…

— Donna Strickland

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

— Doris Lessing

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud

— Rachel Maddow

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

— Bertha von Suttner

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

— Bill Gates

“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“I came to speak ill of Swedish engineering, and so diddled myself out of a Nobel Prize.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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