Nobel Prize Quotes - Page 4

• [I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.

  David Bennun

  Running, Thinking, Views

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

  Saul Perlmutter

  Space, People, Important

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• I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

  Christopher A. Sims

  Thinking, People, Littles

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Nobel, Jew

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.

  Jedediah Bila

  Dream, University Professors, Winner

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Success, Mother, Home

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• With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore.

  Donald Trump

  Winter, Snow, Records

  "Trump cool to global warning". pagesix.com. February 14, 2010.

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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, Nobel

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• I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

  Ed McBain

  Winning, Awards, Musical

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• And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

  Willard Libby

  Goal, Achievement, Done

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• This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

  Stanford Moore

  Wisdom, Intellectual, Auras

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• It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

  Peter Agre

  Discovery, Honor, Advancement

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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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• I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Giving, Political, President

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• There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

  Michele Bachmann

  Believe, Intelligent, Design

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 24, 2011.

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• And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Country, Rats, Winner

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• We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a life’s work, shouldn’t the work accurately describe the real world?

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Mistake, Awards

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• We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.

  Bill Gates

  Beach, Art, Sunset

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• The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes.

  Rick Strassman

  Discovery, Usa, Dmt

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• [on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

  Enrico Fermi

  Winning, Thinking, Common

  Physics Today, October 1994.

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

  Orhan Pamuk

  Relief, Nobel, Ask Me

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

  Catherine Camus

  Writing, Artist, Influence

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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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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• Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher did for him. And also throughout the world there are Monsieur Germains [his old schoolteacher] everywhere. That's why I published the letters, so that he could have a place in the work.

  Catherine Camus

  Teacher, Old School, World

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.

  Richard Dawkins

  College, Should Have, Numbers

  Source: newrepublic.com

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