Nobel Quotes

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.

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

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

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.

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'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

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'.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

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'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

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

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

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!

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel 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.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

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