Embarrassed Quote by Christopher A. Sims

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients,…

— Anonymous

The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may…

— James Rothman

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves…

— David Douglass

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful…

— Aaron Klug

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a…

— Willard Libby

I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost…

— Joachim Frank

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

— Herbert Simon

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss? And every time…

— Mouloud Benzadi