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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this…

— Dale T. Mortensen

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 very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R.…

— Frederick Banting

My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate…

— Milton Friedman

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

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

— Doris Lessing

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will…

— August Krogh

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or…

— Richard P. Feynman

Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather…

— Robert J. Samuelson

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

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

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