Average Quote by Richard P. Feynman

The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

— Angus Deaton

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

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

— Wole Soyinka

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

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that…

— Shuji Nakamura

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

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

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

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

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

— Klaus Kinski

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful…

— Aaron Klug

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