Top Nobel Quotes
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
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
Herbert Simon
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
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
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
Edward M. Purcell
Herbert Simon 
John Pople 
Willard Libby 
T. S. Eliot 
Evan Hunter 
Frederick Sanger 
John Bardeen 
Glenn Beck 
Abdus Salam 
Murray Gell-Mann All Nobel Quotes
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 
98% of people like this quote
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
Herbert Simon
70% of people like this quote
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
65% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.
Edward M. Purcell
57% of people like this quote
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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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard P. Feynman
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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
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Popular Nobel Authors
T. S. EliotNaguib MahfouzJose SaramagoGlenn BeckGeorge WaldJoshua LederbergMichael PollanOmar BongoKlaus KinskiRichard GereSun Myung MoonLester B. PearsonJon PorterJohn CameronMurray Gell-Mann
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