Awards Quote by Robert Hofstadter

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

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

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

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 awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

— John Bardeen

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all…

— Irving Langmuir

With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors…

— Simon Kuznets

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of…

— Peter Agre

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

— Tasuku Honjo

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

— John O'Keefe

There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one big thing,…

— Sandra Faber