Nobel Quotes - page 9

I won't be happy until I'm up there, receiving the Nobel Prize. (Kevin Barry)
I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. View quote
Rigoberta Menchú
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. View quote
Philip Warren Anderson
The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. View quote
Philip Warren Anderson
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere. View quote
Peter Higgs
Hayek expressed the greatest praise for Popper. Whether this was Hayek's ultimate view or a reflection of a deep, though subordinate, strain of personal modesty and humility that ran through him is an open question. Hayek's support was vital in Popper's career. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hayek was involved with an unsuccessful effort to obtain the Nobel Prize in Literature for Popper. View quote
Alan O. Ebenstein
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. View quote
Steven Pinker
The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics. View quote
Eric Maskin
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. View quote
John Pople
You can actually do extremely well out of not getting a Nobel prize. (Jocelyn Bell Burnell)
In addition to her high-profile work on cults, Singer was also an authority on schizophrenia, and was nominated twice for a Nobel Prize for her research. View quote
Margaret Singer
Today in Germany the winner of the last Nobel peace prize is considered a traitor, and to attend any peace meeting would make one a candidate for a concentration camp. Today in Italy there is only one morality: the power and glory of Italy. Today in Russia all children are brought up to despise and hate ‘the class enemy.' View quote
Dorothy Thompson
My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize. View quote
Myron Scholes
We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM. View quote
Akio Morita
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. View quote
John R. Bolton
In 1913, Nobel prize Otto Heinrich Warburg was the first to observe that cancer cannot develop in a rich stace full of oxygen. Nobel prize Roy Walford also observed that caloric restriction, could increase longevity and health. View quote
Jean-Pierre Willem
The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize. View quote
Marco Rubio
(as Tony Blair): "Look we believe Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. Now if we don't attack him, then he might not use them, and in that case we'll never know whether he's got them or not. And you know, that's not a risk I'm prepared to take. Besides if we do conquer Iraq, and remove Saddam Hussein, there's a chance we could win the Nobel Peace Prize, and you know, frankly, isn't that something worth going to war for?" View quote
Rory Bremner
The kindergarten essay got into that underground press we all belong to where something just sort of has a life of its own and moves around and it gets on refrigerators and in the work place and people copy it... I was a minister in the Unitarian church at the time and teaching and I was ready to stop that and do the next phase of my life. So I had quit both those jobs and I was all set up with my studio in Seattle when this other horse came riding by ... I'm not a great writer and I'll never get the Nobel Prize or a Pulitzer Prize but I've won the refrigerator door award. And you don't see Faulkner on people's refrigerator. (Robert Fulghum)
People have been looking for this dark matter because there is a Nobel prize, for sure, waiting for whoever discovers it. View quote
Stacy McGaugh
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand 30,000. View quote
William Faulkner
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. View quote
Doris Lessing
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. View quote
Doris Lessing