Nobel Quotes - Page 3

• I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

  Omar Bongo

  Nobel Peace Prize, Prize

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• 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.

  Richard Gere

  World, Holiness, Quantum

  "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. June 9, 2016.

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• I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Labs, Prize, Nobel Prize

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• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

  David Douglass

  Experts, Use, Fields

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

  Abdus Salam

  Race, Generosity, Distinction

  Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.374, World Scientific

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• Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

  Glenn Beck

  Teacher, Retirement, Children

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• 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.

  Edward Mills Purcell

  Past, Men, Long

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• 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.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Memorial, Use, Research

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• That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  Paul Berg

  Technology, Dna, Receiving

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• 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.

  Pierre Curie

  Powerful, War, Mean

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

  Klaus Kinski

  Want, Prize, Nobel Prize

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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

  Wish, Consideration, Scandinavia

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• 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.

  Alfred Hershey

  Happiness, Awards, Years

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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Research, Benefits, Tangible

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

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Wife, Literature, Western

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• Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

  Nelson Mandela

  Kings, Selfish, War

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 28, 2013

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• Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Winning, Bigs, Deals

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• The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Opportunity, Giving, Fool

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• I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

  Jane McGonigal

  Games, Want, Designer

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• If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

  Kathy Lette

  Invention, Inventor, Prize

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House

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• The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.

  Henri Bergson

  Country, Taken, Inspiration

  Henri Bergson's acceptance speech (in the form of a letter) for the Nobel Prize in literature at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hotel in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1928.

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• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  Wangari Maathai

  War, Thinking, Humanity

  Time Magazine Interview, October 10, 2004.

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• We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, War, Winning

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 16, 2011.

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• My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Children, Mind, Used

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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

  Persecution, Prize, Ifs

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