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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Peace

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• It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and Hu has a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his.

  Bill Maher

  Sight, President, Next

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• I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

  Jose Saramago

  Gmos, Receiving, Habit

  "A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

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• I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Moon, Unification Church, Academic

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• I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

  "White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures". Book by Robert B. Taylor, 2008.

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• If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

  John Ritter

  Song, Three, Disease

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• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Believe, Doors, People

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Oct 13, 2015

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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, Effects

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• The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Funeral, Done, Tickets

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• If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Average, Persons, Prize

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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• There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Air, Firsts, Winner

  Autobiographical Essay for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Opportunity, Giving, Prize

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