If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. Votes: 6
Richard P. FeynmanThe Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. Votes: 6
T. S. EliotMy wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. Votes: 4
Naguib MahfouzI feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992. Votes: 4
Rigoberta MenchuNobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart. Votes: 3
Allan SnyderPolitical satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. Votes: 3
Tom LehrerPolitical satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize. Votes: 3
Tom LehrerGeorge W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel. Votes: 3
Joe KleinSome people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion. Votes: 3
Wole SoyinkaThe process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. Votes: 3
Rita Levi-MontalciniThe Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves. Votes: 3
Gertrude B. ElionThe Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself. Votes: 3
John BoltonAnyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject. Votes: 3
Tim HuntI thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. Votes: 3
Naguib MahfouzThe farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3
Irene Joliot-CurieThe Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public. Votes: 3
Rosalyn Sussman YalowAlfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. Votes: 3
Bertha von Suttner[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. Votes: 3
Catherine CamusThe United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates. Votes: 3
Max FisherAmerica can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. Votes: 3
William J. ClintonThere is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. Votes: 3
Barry MarshallIt's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. Votes: 3
Doris LessingIf I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. Votes: 3
Richard FeynmanThe president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction. Votes: 3
Trey GowdyIf I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong, Votes: 3
Dennis RodmanAs the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. Votes: 3
Iris ChangThe Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. Votes: 3
Friedrich August von HayekIn many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. Votes: 3
Desmond TutuWinning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something. Votes: 3
Richard P. FeynmanThe Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do. Votes: 3
Betty WilliamsI am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way. Votes: 3
Naguib MahfouzNobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawI thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. Votes: 3
Amelie NothombI should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. Votes: 3
Jean TiroleIt is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation. Votes: 3
Ada YonathI think I should get the Nobel Peace Prize before I die for ending the war between the sexes. Votes: 3
Betty DodsonIf the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. Votes: 3
Kathy LetteWinning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. Votes: 3
Naguib MahfouzNow that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize? Votes: 3
Mort SahlLas teorías de Milton Friedman le dieron el Premio Nobel; a Chile le dieron el general Pinochet
Eduardo GaleanoThe Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. Votes: 1 P. J. O'Rourke
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. Votes: 1 Michael Pollan
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. Votes: 6 Guglielmo Marconi