In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it’s been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It’s not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I’ll confess, you know, I knew what it was.
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
I’ve always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
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.
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they’d be playing the theme song from ‘Three’s Company’.
I’m honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can’t imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.
The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts – even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
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.
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.
There is no ‘master plan’ on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and… being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.
I think it’s fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.
There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
I don’t understand what it’s all about or what’s worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.
I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.
I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
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