Nobel Prize Quotes - Page 5

• [ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

  Sjon

  Political, Bob, Firsts

  Source: wwd.com

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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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• 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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• The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.

  David Bennun

  Interesting, Literature, Bob

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Sjon

  Bob, Nobel, Worthy

  Source: wwd.com

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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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• I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Technology, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

  Bob Dylan

  Would Be, Bob, Easy

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.patheos.com

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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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• 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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• Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.

  Jay Leno

  Two, Bills, Telephones

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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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• Two sons, they'll both be presidents after they win their Nobel Prizes. And the daughters, they'll be prima ballerinas before they become the president of Princeton and start their Internet company. And I just started to think about What's the conventional load of those expectations you carry around? You have to pull them out one by one and smash them in the corner. You realize the pile is quite high. But in a way, it becomes oddly liberating to do that.

  Ron Suskind

  Daughter, Son, Winning

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Years, World

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough."

  Pico Iyer

  Men, Thinking, Rare Person

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  People, Age, Use

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.

  Lewis Schiff

  New York, School, America

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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

  Lewis Schiff

  Winner, Nobel, Prize

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Humble, Honor, Proud

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• If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

  Ava Helen Pauling

  Husband, Hard Work, Science

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• On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

  Max Perutz

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

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• Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.

  Jane McGonigal

  Important, Pushing, Enough

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• The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Economics, Individual

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1974.

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