Dynamite Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to…

— Wole Soyinka

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite,…

— Alva Myrdal

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands…

— Pierre Curie

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

The first thought inside whose mind has it appeared? He should be awarded the Nobel Prize for originality!

— Mariana Fulger

“There is a story about Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. One day his older brother died, and a newspaper got the story wrong…

— Alan A. Lew

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things…

— Terry Pratchett

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

— Charles H. Townes

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

— Richard P. Feynman