Children Quote by Leon M. Lederman

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

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

— Herbert Simon

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

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

— Joshua Lederberg

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

— Kailash Satyarthi

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 fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

— Gertrude B. Elion

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

— Philip Warren Anderson