About Quote by Peter Higgs

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

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

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients,…

— Anonymous

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 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

I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost…

— Joachim Frank

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

— Betty Williams

The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have…

— Jack W. Szostak

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a…

— Michael Shermer

Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I…

— Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.'…

— Shuji Nakamura

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

— Saul Perlmutter