Nobel famous quotes

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 work.
-- Aaron Klug

#People #Sometimes #Nobel

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
-- Abdus Salam

#Race #Generosity #Nobel

It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
-- Alfred Nobel

#Wish #Consideration #Nobel

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

#Forgiving #Form #Nobel

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
-- Herbert Simon

#Important #Forget #Nobel

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.
-- Joe Klein

#Nobel #Prize #Deserve

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
-- John Bolton

#Thinking #Nobel Peace Prize #Nobel

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.
-- John Pople

#Awards #Students #Nobel

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
-- Joshua Lederberg

#Labs #Nobel #Prize

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.
-- Kathy Lette

#Invention #Nobel #Inventor

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

#Want #Nobel #Prize

Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei

#Nobel #Plans

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Literature #Language #Nobel

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Wife #Literature #Nobel

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

#Winning #Lifestyle #Nobel

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Literature #Select #Nobel

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Way #Nobel #My Way

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
-- Omar Bongo

#Nobel #Nobel Peace Prize #Prize

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
-- Philip Warren Anderson

#Opportunity #Giving #Nobel

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
-- Philip Warren Anderson

#Years #Nobel #Prize

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
-- Rita Levi-Montalcini

#Nobel #Process #Nobel Prize

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

#Nobel #Persecution #Prize

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call
-- Saul Perlmutter

#Nobel #Nobel Prize #Prize

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
-- Stanford Moore

#Intellectual #Auras #Nobel

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
-- Stanford Moore

#Benefits #Lifetime #Nobel

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Independent #Data #Nobel

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.
-- William J. Clinton

#America #Profit #Nobel

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.
-- Lewis Schiff

#Winner #Nobel #Prize

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.
-- Max Fisher

#Winning #Secret #Nobel

Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.
-- Hendrik Tennekes

#Dream #Nobel #Mishaps

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.
-- Sjon

#Bob #Nobel #Worthy

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
-- Irene Joliot-Curie

#Science #Theory #Nobel