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I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.
Piyush Goyal
You
Think
Everything
Say
Gives
Nobel
Institution
Always
Certificate
Right
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.
Richard Attenborough
Films
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Like
Sell
Commercial
Prize
Really
Helps
Event
Hardly
Oscars
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Complex
Corrupted
Nobel
Prizes
Cannot
Process
Awarding
The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.
Robert F. Engle
Work
Financial
Economics
Important
Incredible
Recognition
Colleagues
Students
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Over
Also
Were
Years
Prize
Done
Worked
Hard
Lucky
Applications
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
Field
Research
Honors
Colleagues
Given
Students
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Also
Prize
Personal
Which
Worked
Award
The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.
Robert Robinson
Time
Experience
Modicum
Imagination
Assumed
Incredible
Possess
Must
Winners
Emotion
Nobel
Least
Surge
Prizes
Any
Sensibility
Us
Should
Therefore
For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters.
Robert Robinson
Myself
Achieve
Chemistry
Mark
Approbation
Distinction
Highest
Nobel
Supporters
Sponsors
Also
Am
Scientist
Greatly
Thank
Committee
Beholden
Which
Award
Foundation
There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one big thing, for a big revolutionary discovery. And it's wonderfully well known, and of course every scientist would love to get a Nobel prize. And there's a few other similar awards. They're for individual blockbuster discoveries.
Sandra Faber
Love
Character
You
Big
Few
Every
Other
Kind
Would
Kinds
Similar
Individual
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Well
Well Known
Known
Course
Blockbuster
Scientist
Discoveries
Discovery
Prize
Get
Revolutionary
Wonderfully
Big Thing
Awards
Thing
Two
I have a film out called 'Nobel.' Film is something I would love to explore more, even though I love being on the stage.
Sarah Greene
Love
Stage
Though
Out
Would
Something
More
Nobel
Being
Explore
Even
Film
I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.
Selma Lagerlof
Father
Thought
Alive
Tell
Would
Could
Had
No-One
He
Nobel
Knew
Nobel Prize
Longer
Sorrow
Him
Felt
Go
Hear
Been
Than
Prize
Happier
Should
Deep
Awarded
Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.
Severo Ochoa
Teacher
Great
Guidance
Encouragement
Medicine
Admired
Adorn
Inspiration
Nobel
Names
Friend
Very
Owe
Roll
Much
Whose
Among
I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.
Sheck Wes
Peace
Win
Everything
Emmys
Nobel
Prizes
Golden
Want
Grammys
Many
I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.
Shuji Nakamura
Me
You
Happy
Win
Could
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Sure
Got
Surprised
Prize
Committee
Whether
With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.
Simon Kuznets
World
Economics
Field
Increasing
Honors
Distinctive
Memorial
Only
Variety
Individual
Scholar
Scholarly
Nobel
Implicitly
Conceived
Also
Within
Method
Prize
Fields
Special
Award
Specialization
Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.
Sophie Hannah
You
People
World
Win
Walk
Live
Incredibly
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Look
Most
Am
Cambridge
Off
Prize
Heaven
Place
Convinced
Nicest
Bright
Round
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.
Stanford Moore
Benefit
Honoring
More
Lifelong
Lifetime
Nobel
Concern
His
Timely
Than
Endeavors
Estate
Mankind
Dedicating
Even
Expressed
A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.
Stephen Kinzer
World
Before
Few
Grass
States
Both
Winning
Nobel
Most
Were
Famous
Gabriel
Them
Who
Large
Popular
Even
Novelists
United
United States
Among
I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.
Terence Tao
Mathematics
Nice
Think
Others
About
Nobel
Like
Prize
Prizes
Really
Nice Thing
Thing
I began my thesis research at Harvard by working with a team in the laboratory of William N. Lipscomb, a Nobel chemistry Laureate, in 1976, on the structure of carboxypeptidase A. I did postdoctoral studies with David Blow at the MRC lab of Molecular Biology in Cambridge studying chymotrypsin.
Thomas A. Steitz
Chemistry
Research
Biology
William
Harvard
Laureate
Structure
David
Studies
Nobel
Studying
Cambridge
Lab
Began
Laboratory
Did
Blow
Working
Molecular
Team
Thesis
Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.
Tim Hunt
Win
Research
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Scientist
His
Subject
Prize
Anyone
Hard
Works
In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.
Tom Brokaw
Peace
Dog
Will
President
Way
Promise
Obama
Critics
Admirers
One-Way
About
Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Him
Another
Continue
His
Accomplishments
Prize
Ceremony
Doubts
Even
Oslo
A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.
Tom Frieden
Difficult
Would
Develop
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Merit
Very
Prize
Tuberculosis
Just
Vaccine
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
Tom Lehrer
Satire
Peace
Political
Kissinger
Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Obsolete
Became
Prize
Awarded
Henry
I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Myself
Focus
Winner
Biology
Out
Gene
Crossroads
Had
Nobel
Knew
Between
Prizes
Going
Convinced
Stands
Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Today
Science
Way
Collaborative
Bad
Bad Way
Nobel
Highly
Look
Exercise
Contest
Does
Convert
There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Magical
Winning
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Formula
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