Nobel Quotes

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

When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”

All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working.

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say ‘thank you’ for an honour like the Nobel Prize.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being – to help someone to succeed.