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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 disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded. — Chanakya

Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear. — Farshad Asl

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. — Alfred Nobel

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU — Martin Schulz

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

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. — Jairam Ramesh

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

It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation. — Ada Yonath

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

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist. — Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere. — Alfred Nobel

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war. — Martin Firrell

One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. — Jon Porter

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not. — David Gross

When [Niels] Bohr is about everything is somehow different. Even the dullest gets a fit of brilliancy. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

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

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. — Abdus Salam

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize. — Binyavanga Wainaina

As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from them. — Kenichi Fukui

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000. — Klaus Kinski

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions. — Hideki Yukawa

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 lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. — Doris Lessing

I am an atheist. — Hans Bethe

I think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes. — Betty Dodson

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science. — John F. Kennedy

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status. — Luis Federico Leloir

Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life. — Francis Perrin

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen. — Randy Schekman

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines. — Hideki Yukawa

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

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

At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life. — James D. Watson

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. — Jean Tirole

Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us. — Edgar Douglas Adrian

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates. — Max Fisher

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

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. — Barry Marshall

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov. — Torsten Wiesel

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. — Alfred Nobel

On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung.
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto. — Walther Nernst

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 late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

Light brings us the news of the Universe. — William Henry Bragg

I used the Nobel money to buy a house and for the education of my children. — Wolfgang Ketterle

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations. — David H. Hubel

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. — Gertrude B. Elion

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. — Wolfgang Ketterle

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. — Alfred Nobel

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz

Make-up artists should hereby get the Nobel prize for adding to human happiness. And so should hairdressers. And so should Luke. — Sophie Kinsella

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age. — Kailash Satyarthi

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

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize. — Janet Maslin

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. — Joshua Lederberg

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. — Vincent Canby

I'm not sure what Al Gore did for peace. I don't think he have been high on my list for the Nobel Peace Prize. — Ron Paul

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all. — Jose Saramago

Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart. — Allan Snyder

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales. — Arthur Kornberg

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono. — Michael O'Leary

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. — Trey Gowdy

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs. — Harold Urey

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one. — Craig Venter

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. — Elie Wiesel

The truthful man is usually a liar. — Alfred Nobel

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

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. — Naguib Mahfouz

A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations. — Curtis Sittenfeld

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace. — Alfred Nobel

I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize ... it's a pain in the ... (LAUGHS). I don't like honors. — Richard Feynman

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. — William J. Clinton

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. — Philip Warren Anderson

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

Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy. — Amit Ray

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize. — Bruce Beutler

Worry is the stomach's worst poison. — Alfred Nobel

Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. — Jedediah Bila

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion. — Alfred Nobel

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

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize. — Tim Hunt

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel. — Ivar Giaever

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette

I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. — Marie Curie

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve. — John O'Keefe

All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics. — Clive Granger

Justice is to be found only in imagination. — Alfred Nobel