Nobel Quotes

221 quotes by 175 authors

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. — Richard P. Feynman
When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence — Enrico Fermi
The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud — Rachel Maddow
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the… — Haldan Keffer Hartline
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way. — Naguib Mahfouz
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles. — Vincent Canby
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole… — Willard Libby
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out… — David Douglass
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. — Stanford Moore
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972… — Stanford Moore
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron,… — Bernard Lown
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! — Omar Bongo
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental… — Peter Agre
To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations,… — Irving Langmuir
It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel… — George H. W. Bush
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me to the railway… — Linda McQuaig
Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those… — John Pople
I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from… — John Pople
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan
The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also… — Robert Hofstadter

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