Disappointing Quote by David Douglass

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and…

— John O'Keefe

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to…

— George Stigler

“the education of professional scientists is often just as narrowly focused as the education of any other group of professionals, and scientists are just…

— Robert M. Hazen

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so…

— Christopher A. Sims

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is…

— Anthony Standen

Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even though the…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and…

— Robert Winston

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

“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

— Bill Bryson

I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold