Nobel Quotes

The citation for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry reads, ‘for contribution to the knowledge of electronic structures and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals,’ and therefore implies that the Prize has been awarded for a long series of studies extending practically over my whole scientific life.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.