Nobel Quotes

221 Nobel quotes by 175 unique authors

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. — P.J. O'Rourke
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize. — Binyavanga Wainaina
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost… — Richard Dawkins
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique -… — Stanley B. Prusiner
Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true… — Stanley B. Prusiner
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise. — Charles H. Townes
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. — Najib Razak
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. — Tom Lehrer
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. — Bertha von Suttner
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. — Rigoberta Menchu
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. — Fritz Haber
Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose… — Severo Ochoa
Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright,… — Sophie Hannah
The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist. — Charles Glover Barkla
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel… — Charles Glover Barkla
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy… — Charles Glover Barkla
There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it… — James Heckman
My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very… — Dale T. Mortensen
It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations… — Willard Boyle
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly… — August Krogh

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