Nobel Prize Quotes - Page 8

• The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Winning, Track

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Two, Water, Problem

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

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Thinking, President

  "Rep. Gowdy: Paper applications for ObamaCare are a 'facade'". www.foxnews.com. November 04, 2013.

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• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Home, And Love

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• My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Two, Wish

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 25, 2010

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Swimming, Prize Money, Safety

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• It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes.

  Max Fisher

  Winning, Secret, Nobel

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Opportunity, Giving, Nobel

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Mom, Cousin, New York

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

  Klaus Kinski

  Want, Nobel, Prize

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

  Patrick Modiano

  Mother, Daughter, Winning

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• The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Creativity, Hands

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