Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a… — Andrew Smith Copy Share Image
The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A… — Sune Bergstrom Copy Share Image
A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical… — Haldan Keffer Hartline Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits:… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
When Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the age of 88, she was the oldest person ever to receive… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and… — David Douglass Copy Share Image
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old… — Amartya Sen 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
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore;… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
President Obama reacted to his Nobel Peace Prize win saying, 'I accept this award as a call to action.' That's great, but… — Seth Meyers 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 is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked… — Robert Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me.… — Willard Boyle Copy Share Image
[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the… — Sjon Copy Share Image
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the… — Desmond Tutu 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
My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image