Allergies Quote by Colin Powell

Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of…

— Lewis Schiff

The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two…

— Oliver Tambo

“AS A KID GROWING UP IN A RURAL PENNSYLVANIA COAL COUNTRY in the 1930s and 1940s, Bill McGowan never dreamed of a career as…

— Scott Woolley

In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly…

— Marie Curie

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of…

— Peter Agre

“In a recent study comparing every Nobel Prize–winning scientist from 1901 to 2005 with typical scientists of the same era, both groups attained deep…

— Adam M. Grant

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades…

— Frederik Pohl

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school,…

— Richard Carmona

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I'm very honored and pleased to receive the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

— Tasuku Honjo

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

— Herbert Simon