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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
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
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
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.' -- Demetri Martin
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000. -- Klaus Kinski
You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. -- Elie Wiesel
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. -- Gertrude B. Elion
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. -- Wole Soyinka
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
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
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. -- Henry Louis Gates
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
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. -- Doris Lessing
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
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. -- Fritz Haber
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
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette. -- Aubrey de Grey
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 Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family. -- Mother Teresa
I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize. -- Isamu Akasaki
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
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
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
Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be. -- Andre Geim
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. -- C. Sommerville
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. -- Edward Mills Purcell
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
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize. -- Myron Scholes
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
When we faced a possibility here in New York of chemical and biological attack, three days after September 11, I called in all of the experts, academic experts, Nobel Prize laureates, and doctors who had dealt with anthrax, doctors who had dealt with various forms of chemical and biological attack. -- Rudy Giuliani
If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was. -- James D. Watson
My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish. -- Fran Lebowitz
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere. -- Peter Higgs
The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952). -- Joaquin Fuster
People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get. -- Gertrude B. Elion
Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call -- Saul Perlmutter
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. -- Joshua Lederberg
[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize. -- Sjon
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. -- Philip Warren Anderson
I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize. -- Jane McGonigal
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. -- Philip Warren Anderson
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. -- David Eddings
Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject. -- Tim Hunt
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. -- Catherine Camus
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. -- Irene Joliot-Curie
The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public. -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. -- Doris Lessing
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. -- Jedediah Bila
Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. -- Richard P. Feynman
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
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. -- Kathy Lette
Why did the scarecrow win the Nobel Prize?""Why?" she asked, wrinkling her nose."For being outstanding in his field. -- Jennifer E. Smith
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
It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?" -- Orhan Pamuk
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. -- Catherine Camus
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. -- Jon Porter
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners. -- Bill Gates
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. -- Naguib Mahfouz
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
Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill. -- Jay Leno
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me. -- Patrick Modiano
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
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize. -- Bob Dylan
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. -- Catherine Camus
It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental. -- Jerry Pournelle
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
A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well. -- Tom Bethell
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. -- Naguib Mahfouz
There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely. -- James Heckman
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian. -- Heinz Fischer
I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary. -- Seamus Heaney
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination. -- John Cameron
With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore -- Donald Trump
Svante Arrhenius, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics. -- Gordon Stein
I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed. -- Christopher A. Sims
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. -- Ava Helen Pauling
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
I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man". -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me next? -- Steven Chu
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
She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. -- John Green
On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course. -- Jean Tirole
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature? -- George Bernard Shaw
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. -- Willard Libby
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. -- Elie Wiesel
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible. -- Barack Obama
I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal. -- Steven Chu
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'. -- Max Perutz
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. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides. -- Vivian Gornick
One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize. -- Luis Walter Alvarez
I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain. -- Leonard Cohen
I had a period when I read Nobel Prize winners. I figured they had to be good. I discovered some people I didn't know about, like the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness, who wrote "Independent People." . -- Stephen Dobyns
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it. -- Jay Michaelson
The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics. -- Eric Maskin
That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. -- Paul Berg
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace. -- Stephen Colbert
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[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them. -- Sjon
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept. -- Colin Wilson
'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees. -- Ralph W. Moss
The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion. -- Robert Robinson
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. -- Edward Mills Purcell
I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science. -- Ahmed H. Zewail
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. -- Ed McBain
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. -- Ed McBain
There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech. -- Ahmed Zewail
The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes... -- Rick Strassman
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ...Literature" -- Robert Kuttner
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes. -- Freeman Dyson
The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.' -- Ben Bernanke
To become a token woman--whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters--is to become something less than a mansince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest. -- Adrienne Rich

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