Nobel Quotes · Page 6

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

— Michele Bachmann

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag…

— Desmond Tutu

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

— Kathy Lette

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

— T. S. Eliot

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

I think they should continue the policy of not giving a Nobel Prize for paneling.

— Jack Handey

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.

— Betty Dodson

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How…

— Donna Strickland

Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult…

— Robin Williams

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is…

— David Bennun

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace…

— Julian Assange

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the…

— Leon M. Lederman

“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging…

— John Steinbeck

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

— Marco Rubio

“No account of the history of the Allahabad High Court can ever be complete without an honourable and detailed reference to Pundit…

— Munindra Misra

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

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with…

— Frank Pittman

The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me…

— Linda McQuaig

Krugman has been a columnist for the Times for a long enough time, covering a sufficient variety of political events, for us…

— Bob Tyrrell

I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we…

— Demetri Martin

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.

— Max Fisher

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

— David Eddings

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

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

— Joe Klein

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

— William J. Clinton

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

— Enrico Fermi

“Kazuo Ishiguro, the New Nobel Laureate, Has Supremely Done His Own Kind of Thing”

— James Wood

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Jay Leno

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

— Stephen Hawking

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

— Barry Marshall

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

— Richard Dawkins

“A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude. It pounces. —Wole Soyinka, Sub-Saharan Africa’s first Nobel Laureate”

— Nnedi Okorafor

President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.

— Moon Jae-in

“Excruciatingly, Obama’s fellow Nobel Laureates turned on him as well. More”

— Luke Harding

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

— Michael Pollan

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have…

— Walter E. Williams