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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. -- Richard P. Feynman
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. -- Abdus Salam
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. -- T. S. Eliot
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. -- Marie Curie
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. -- Glenn Beck
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. -- Pierre Curie
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. -- Guglielmo Marconi
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. -- Frederick Sanger
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000. -- Klaus Kinski
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. -- Philip Warren Anderson
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. -- Naguib Mahfouz
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. -- Rigoberta Menchu
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting? -- Jandy Nelson
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
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It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. -- Peter Agre
I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod. -- Frederick Banting
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world. -- Richard Gere
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'. -- John Ritter
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. -- Jose Saramago
The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues. -- Robert Hofstadter
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919. -- Charles Glover Barkla
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
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. -- Wangari Maathai
Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. -- John Pople
There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists. -- Joseph Stiglitz
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much. -- Severo Ochoa
The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. -- Lester B. Pearson
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. -- Amartya Sen
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. -- Sun Myung Moon
When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. -- Seamus Heaney
It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time. -- Willard Boyle
The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful. -- George Wald
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible. -- Desmond Tutu
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. -- Lapo Elkann
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
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. -- Steven Wright
Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call -- Saul Perlmutter
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! -- Omar Bongo
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important. -- Herbert Simon
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. -- Joshua Lederberg
Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps. -- Hendrik Tennekes
[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize. -- Sjon
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I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners. -- Lewis Schiff
The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded. -- Chanakya
It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes. -- Max Fisher
I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize. -- Jane McGonigal
The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize. -- Janet Maslin
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. -- Philip Warren Anderson
Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart. -- Allan Snyder
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. -- Tom Lehrer
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. -- Tom Lehrer
You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. -- Elie Wiesel
I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews. -- Richard Dawkins
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise. -- Charles H. Townes
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel. -- Joe Klein
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. -- Wole Soyinka
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. -- David Eddings
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. -- Gertrude B. Elion
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. -- John Bolton
Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject. -- Tim Hunt
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. -- Naguib Mahfouz
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. -- Irene Joliot-Curie
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. -- Michael Pollan
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public. -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. -- Bertha von Suttner
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. -- Catherine Camus
The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates. -- Max Fisher
America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. -- William J. Clinton
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. -- Doris Lessing
If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. -- Jairam Ramesh
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. -- Barry Marshall
It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. -- Doris Lessing
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. -- Richard P. Feynman
The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. -- Trey Gowdy
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. -- Jedediah Bila
If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong, -- Dennis Rodman
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. -- Iris Chang
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. -- Desmond Tutu
There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design. -- Michele Bachmann
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. -- Richard P. Feynman
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do. -- Betty Williams
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. -- George Bernard Shaw
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. -- Amelie Nothomb
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. -- Jean Tirole
It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation. -- Ada Yonath
I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes. -- Betty Dodson
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. -- Kathy Lette
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Why did the scarecrow win the Nobel Prize?""Why?" she asked, wrinkling her nose."For being outstanding in his field. -- Jennifer E. Smith
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. -- William Faulkner
I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. -- Marie Curie
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -- Najib Razak
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. -- Henry Louis Gates
We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize. -- Jay Leno
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. -- John Bardeen
Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony. -- Luis Walter Alvarez
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. -- Catherine Camus
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. -- Richard Dawkins
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula. -- George Wells Beadle
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. -- Jon Porter
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize. -- Stephen Hawking
It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?" -- Orhan Pamuk
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
Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize? -- Mort Sahl
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. -- Naguib Mahfouz
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age. -- Kailash Satyarthi
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners. -- Bill Gates
I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age -- Kailash Satyarthi
Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. -- Saul Perlmutter
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare. -- Herbert A. Simon

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