Business Quote by Charles H. Townes

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite,…

— Alva Myrdal

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands…

— Pierre Curie

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

— Herbert A. Simon

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

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and…

— Frederick Sanger

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in…

— Stanford Moore

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

— Bertha von Suttner

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

— Anonymous

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and…

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to…

— Wole Soyinka

The first thought inside whose mind has it appeared? He should be awarded the Nobel Prize for originality!

— Mariana Fulger