Nobel Quotes

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.

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

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

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

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

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

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.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

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

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

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.

Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

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

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.

Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.

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.

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

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

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

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.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

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

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

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

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.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

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.

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.