Against Quote by Rita Levi-Montalcini

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

— 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

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

— Richard P. Feynman

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

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

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

— David Eddings

I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.

— Piyush Goyal

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but…

— Nelson Mandela

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

— Joshua Lederberg

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

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be…

— Gertrude B. Elion