Committees Quote by Doris Lessing

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

I don't have any clue about the criteria, how the Nobel committee selects an individual for the prize.

— Abiy Ahmed

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

— Philip Warren Anderson

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

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

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

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…

— Robert J. Samuelson

There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like…

— Stanislaw Lem

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all…

— Irving Langmuir

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

...They are wise to the ways of Wall Street - and...getting their fair share of the loot.(:)...from who will be the head of NIH,…

— Edgar Berman

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