“The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.”
T.S. Eliot
“Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety”
George Bernard Shaw
“The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and west, North and South have equally participated in it. In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says: "Thou seest not, in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection, Return thy gaze, seest thou any fissure. Then Return thy gaze, again and again. Thy gaze, Comes back to thee dazzled, aweary."”
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/salam-speech.html
“I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
“The true magnitude of the Nobel Committee's blunder in awarding the Prize to Kissinger didn't become apparent until the destabilization of Cambodia, set in motion by American intervention, produced the Khmer Rouge and the slaughter of over a million”
Paul Hager
“He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to South Africa again,”
Nadine Gordimer
“We're obviously very pleased to have yet another Nobel Prize awarded to someone in our department.”
Richard Shoemaker
