Nobel Quotes

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

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

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

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.

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

My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

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.

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

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

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

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.

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

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

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

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.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

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