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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. -- Michael Pollan
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. -- Desmond Tutu
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
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields. -- David Douglass
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
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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
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped. -- Wole Soyinka
I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world. -- Dan Shechtman
When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me. -- George Smoot
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
I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early. -- Wolfgang Paul
Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat. -- Hampton Sides
[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize. -- Sjon
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. -- Iris Chang
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls. -- Desmond Tutu
For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake. -- Ahmed H. Zewail
I don't believe anything unless I understand it inside out. And even if I understand something, it is not uncommon that I disagree with accepted view (even if it's a Nobel laureate). -- Michael Burry
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. -- Edward Abbey

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