Age Quote by Edgar Berman

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 Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

— Doris Lessing

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

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold

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

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

— Philip Warren Anderson

The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have…

— Jack W. Szostak

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

— Saul Perlmutter

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

— Herbert Simon

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