Admirable Quote by Pierre Curie

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite,…

— Alva Myrdal

“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially…

— Nicolaas Bloembergen

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to…

— Wole Soyinka

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

— George Bernard Shaw

“It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits…

— Pierre Curie

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially…

— Nicolaas Bloembergen

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

— Charles H. Townes

“There is a story about Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. One day his older brother died, and a newspaper got the story wrong…

— Alan A. Lew

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable…

— Stanford Moore

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 Peace Prize to end all peace prizes should have been given to Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow architects of the atomic bomb.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

— Bertrand Russell