Awards Quote by John Bardeen

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

“Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has been preceded…

— John Bardeen

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

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

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

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it…

— Robert Hofstadter

There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one big thing,…

— Sandra Faber

With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors…

— Simon Kuznets

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

— John O'Keefe

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere.…

— George Wald

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a…

— Anonymous

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize…

— Guglielmo Marconi