Nobel Quotes

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.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

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

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

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

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

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

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

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

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

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

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.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

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.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

Politics is a dynamic process. When I was a young man in the 1970s, Yasser Arafat had just perpetrated various terrorist attacks. Just a few years later, after I had entered European Parliament, the same Yasser Arafat was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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