#nobel

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 #believe #father #felt #gave

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#campus #coveted #get #important #important thing

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House-- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#nobel-prize #white-house #humor

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

#company #cure #disease #found #huge

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#nobel #forgiveness

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

— Philip Warren Anderson

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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

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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

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