Able Quote by Pieter Zeeman

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal…

— Guglielmo Marconi

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

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make…

— Marie Curie

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know…

— John Pople

I'm very honored and pleased to receive the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

— Tasuku Honjo

It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages…

— Charles Glover Barkla

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

— Polykarp Kusch

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

— Brian Greene

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international…

— Naguib Mahfouz

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 got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

— Joshua Lederberg

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