Nobel Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.

  John Pople

  Years, Numbers, Lists

  "John Pople - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org.

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• The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

  Robert Hofstadter

  Awards, Honor, Fields

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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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• As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Pay, Information, Return

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• Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

  Lennart Nilsson

  News, Today, Technique

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

  Seamus Heaney

  Cities, Names, Mind

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.415, Macmillan

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• The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

  John Bardeen

  Awards, Giving, Progress

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1972.

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• The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

  Michael Pollan

  Leader, Journalism, Bigs

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Literature, Way, My Way

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• I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

  John Pople

  Awards, Students, Colleagues

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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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• Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Winning, Literature, Lifestyle

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

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Years, Prize, Has Beens

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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 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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• I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Labs, Prize, Nobel Prize

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• To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

  Irving Langmuir

  Home, Awards, Mind

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