Nobel Prize Quotes - Page 6

• The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Self, Tunes

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

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

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Nobel, Persecution, Prize

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

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Literature, Language, Nobel

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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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• I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Humor

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

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

  Herbert Simon

  Important, Forget, Nobel

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• But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

  Orson Scott Card

  Winning, Naughty, Risk

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.333, Macmillan

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• I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

  Matt Groening

  Giving, Chemistry, Murder

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• She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

  John Green

  Growing Up, Winning, Twenties

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.91, A&C Black

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• George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ...Literature"

  Robert Kuttner

  School, Science, Worry

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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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• 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.

  Richard Dawkins

  Numbers, Gone, Nobel

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• [Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Expression, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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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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• When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Ambition, Writing

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• A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  "The Wisdom of Jean-Paul Sartre: A Selection".

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• All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

  Richard Dawkins

  College, Age, World

  Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. August 08, 2013.

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

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Years, Nobel, Prize

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• Just to put that in some context, 1954 was the same year that From Here to Eternity won an Oscar. Swanson's manufactured its first TV dinner. The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised. The term "under God" was inserted into the "Pledge of Allegiance." Steve Allen's Tonight Show premiered. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And Bob Dylan was bar mitzvahed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Army, Years, Bars

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel Prize to [Bob] Dylan because blurring the lines of song lyrics and also hip-hop for me is like some of the greatest uses - most innovative uses of language in my lifetime.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Song, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.

  Wole Soyinka

  Real, Struggle, Men

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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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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• It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Years, People, Fundamentals

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

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Should Have, Economics, Nobel

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

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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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