Nobel Prize Quotes
113 quotes by 95 authors
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Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
— Glenn Beck
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If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to…
— Unknown Author
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Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.
— Unknown Author
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
— George Bernard Shaw
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On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil,…
— Max Perutz
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The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It…
— Rajneesh
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When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.…
— Rajneesh
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The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having…
— Rajneesh
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The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
— Philip Warren Anderson
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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
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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
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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
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The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.
— Trey Gowdy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Nobel Prize Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 113 Nobel Prize Quotes, led by these top contributors: