Nobel Quotes · Page 4

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

— Betty Williams

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

— Abdus Salam

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

— Jean Tirole

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

— Jon Porter

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll…

— Billy Boyd

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

— Steven Magee

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is…

— Anonymous

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

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

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his…

— Barack Obama

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of…

— Frederick Sanger

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

— George Wald

Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is…

— Dennis Rodman

The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA…

— Rick Strassman

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

The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind…

— Paul Conroy

I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing…

— Freeman Dyson

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the…

— Toni Morrison

“Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

— Max Fisher

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

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

— Naguib Mahfouz

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

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

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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

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

— Bill Gates

“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

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

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

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

“I expect I will win one Nobel prize and I may end up eventually winning all categories.”

— Steven Magee