41 Quotes About Nobel-prize

It is just staggering to realize how much we don’t know. We don’t know how the first life started on Earth. We do not know for sure how the universe started. We do not know how time started. Even without answers to such most basic questions and knowing well how little we know of what we don’t know, we have still chosen to award Nobel prizes to people.

Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men... Nah.

Year Zillion“What is your contribution to society?”“I mind my own business and I always know when to shut the fuck up.”**Gets Nobel Prize**If two people are happy together, just leave them alone.

This figure, which gave a clear meaning to the daily spectacle that everyone in town had in front of their eyes, disconcerted them even more. Up to then people had merely complaine about a rather disgusting accident. Now they saw that there was something threatening in this phenomenon, the extent and origin of which was not yet clear to them.

Attempted murder. Now honestly what is that? Can you win a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.

For marriage has nothing in common with love. marriage makes for security; love makes only for suffering. On the other hand, love could be so distilled, spun so fine as to implicate third and fourth persons, as to take up three or four exciting acts in a play.