Nobel Quotes - Page 4

• Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

  Frank Pittman

  Couple, Cheer, Brass Bands

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• To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

  Adrienne Rich

  Winning, Men, Self

  Ms. Magazine (p. 44), September 1979.

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• 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

  Independent, Data, Constant

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• The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Spring, Creativity, Unique

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• Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

  Harriet Lerner

  Mother, Home, Ambition

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.

  David Bennun

  Girl, Attitude, Believe

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Max Fisher

  Winning, Secret, Prize

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Mean, Winning

  "Could Science Make the 21st Century Worse Than the 20th?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.

  Freeman Dyson

  Teaching, School, Mean

  "Could Science Make the 21st Century Worse Than the 20th?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

  Colin Wilson

  Literature, Outsiders, Conflict

  Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,

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• 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.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Science, Unique, Awards

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• In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

  Jon Porter

  Pregnancy, Community, Facts

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• The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

  Irene Joliot-Curie

  Science, Theory, Close Minded

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• In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

  Desmond Tutu

  Way, Obligation, Humankind

  "The secrets of a peacemaker" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Desire is something very egoistic. If you desire something, you also have to take the consequences of that. You have to study the market and see how it can go. I mean to become an artist... You never get the Nobel-price for example. You can normally never become a millionaire. Very few become millionaires, so the circumstances are very bad if one becomes an artist. And that should be taken into consideration.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Taken, Mean, Artist

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

  Desmond Tutu

  Trying, Red, Rags

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
  receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Daughter, Regret, Thinking

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 339, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Mind, Forgiving

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• The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.

  Catherine Camus

  Artist, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• 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.

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, Giving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

  Doris Lessing

  Winning, Giving, Lovely

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• [Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

  Catherine Camus

  Teacher, Writing, Acceptance

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Lonely, Honor, Path

  "Suu Kyi To Accept Nobel Peace Prize, Decades Late". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 16, 2012.

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• I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."

  Alan Bennett

  Beautiful, Mother, Land

  "Writing Home". Book by Alan Bennett, 1994.

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• George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

  Joe Klein

  Prize, Deserve

  "More Neo-Nonsense". swampland.time.com. July 30, 2008.

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