Nobel Quotes

Nobel Quote of the day

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.

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

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

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

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'.

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

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.

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

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Now I know what the atom looks like.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

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

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

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

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men.

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.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

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

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.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

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.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

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?

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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

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.

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

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

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

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.

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

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).

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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.

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.

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

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

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

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

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.

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

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.

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.