Fail Quote by Howard Florey

There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my…

— Barry Barish

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

We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast…

— Jared Diamond

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

— Steven Magee

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

“If one destroyed in museums and libraries, if one hurled down on the flagstones before the churches all the works and all the monuments…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Of course I'm excited about the Nobel. But I am passionate about my research. Passion is really important for anything you do; it's a…

— Michael Levitt

“The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have become cruel,…

— Rachel Cusk

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

— Herbert A. Simon

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and…

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined,…

— Peter Agre

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may…

— Joseph Rotblat