Nobel Quotes

• The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

  Guy Burgess

  People, Justice, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Powerful, Commitment, Achievement

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

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• The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Heart, Doors, Nobel Peace Prize

  "Aung San Suu Kyi accepts Nobel peace prize" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• The fact that Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment, is nowhere better illustrated than in the two fields for slight contributions to which you have done me the great honour of awarding the the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1923. Sometimes it is one foot that is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both-by theorizing and then testing, or by finding new relations in the process of experimenting and then bringing the theoretical foot up and pushing it on beyond, and so on in unending alterations.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Years, Two

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• Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Believe, People

  "History and the Decline of Human Violence". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Winning, Simple

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• Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

  Alfred Nobel

  Life, Strong, Science

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• Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Swimming, Prize Money, Safety

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• The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Yesterday, People, Looks

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Peace

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• After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Weekend, Daddy

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. October 9, 2009.

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• 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.

  Alfred Nobel

  Wish, Consideration, Scandinavia

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• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

  Alfred Hershey

  Happiness, Awards, Years

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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  Haldan Keffer Hartline

  Research, Benefits, Tangible

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• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Feelings, Literature, Levels

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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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• When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

  Frederick Sanger

  Beauty, Father, Believe

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• 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.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Philosophy, Long, Rewards

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• 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.

  Stanford Moore

  Benefits, Lifetime, Endeavor

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• The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

  George Wald

  Peace, Grateful, Heart

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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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