quotes about Nobel
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People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
-- Aaron KlugSource : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
-- Abdus SalamSource : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.374, World Scientific
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It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
-- Alfred Nobel -
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 -
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Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
-- Herbert Simon -
George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.
-- Joe Klein -
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
-- John Bolton -
I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.
-- John Pople -
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If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.
-- Kathy LetteSource : Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House
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It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
-- Klaus Kinski -
Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
-- Philip Warren Anderson -
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
-- Philip Warren Anderson -
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The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
-- Rita Levi-MontalciniSource : "Rita Levi-Montalcini obituary" by Anthony Tucker, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2012.
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If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
-- Rita Levi-Montalcini -
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.
-- Stanford Moore -
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In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
-- Stanford Moore -
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.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner -
America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.
-- William J. ClintonSource : Source: www.yesmagazine.org
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I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.
-- Lewis Schiff -
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It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.
-- Max FisherSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.
-- Hendrik Tennekes -
[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.
-- SjonSource : Source: wwd.com
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The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
-- Irene Joliot-Curie -