Lifestyle Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

— Joshua Lederberg

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

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including…

— Amartya Sen

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

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as…

— Arthur Keith

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and…

— John Steinbeck

“Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs.…

— Kendal Rob

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

— Gertrude B. Elion