Nobel Quotes

221 quotes by 178 authors

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Clifford Shull
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me. — Patrick Modiano
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to… — Jean-Paul Sartre
On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite… — Jean Tirole
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. — Trey Gowdy
Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want… — Robin Williams
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really… — Richard Dawkins
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather than… — Robert J. Samuelson
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in… — Richard Saul Wurman
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back… — Donald Trump
The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot do… — Sune Bergstrom
The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time… — Rick Strassman
I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many… — Christopher A. Sims
In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be… — Chris Colfer
I read once, which I loved so much, that this great physicist who won a Nobel Prize said that every day when he got home,… — Diane Sawyer
All the worldâ€™s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins
As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him… — Newt Gingrich
We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics… — Seth Klarman
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer

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