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When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
Frederick Sanger
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
Herbert Simon
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
Stanford Moore
I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
Norman Jewison
Jacob Bronowski 
Herbert Simon 
Abraham Lincoln 
Dana Rohrabacher 
William Congreve 
William Feather 
Kahlil Gibran 
Alfred Nobel 
Patricia Highsmith All Prizes Quotes
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
Frederick Sanger 
98% of people like this quote
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.
Herbert Simon
70% of people like this quote
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Joseph Lancaster
60% of people like this quote
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
Stanford Moore
59% of people like this quote
I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
Norman Jewison
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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. Smith
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The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.
Harvey Pekar
58% of people like this quote
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
John Cameron
56% of people like this quote
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