Nobel Quotes

I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

The role of the United Nations is to set the mental clocks of the world leaders from past problems to the present opportunities and from local power mindset to global welfare mindset.

I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist.

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.