Top 512 Nobel Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.
The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.
I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.
[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.
Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?
I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
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.
It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest.
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.
I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'
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.
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
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.
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.
I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.
To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.
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.
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.
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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.
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.
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.
Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.
I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
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.
The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.
You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the way the world operates.
I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes.
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.
When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong Kong people who fight for democracy.
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.
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.
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.
We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
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.
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
