Nobel Quotes

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

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

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

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

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.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

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.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

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

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

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

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

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.'

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

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

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

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

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

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.

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

I'd like to win a Booker Prize for writing. A Nobel Peace Prize for my work in peace... and I think that'll probably do.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.

The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among prizes, it is surely his [Bob Dylan] due.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.