Nobel Prize Quotes

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

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.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

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.

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.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

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

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.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

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?"

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

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.

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.

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

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.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.

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.

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

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.

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.

[ 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.

It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hi

I am an atheist.

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.[Exemplifying humility, upon accepting the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.]

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

Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator!

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music