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There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.


Joseph Stiglitz


#also #been #distinguished #economics #economists

Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that you can pass along to help us start strong? You are an adult. The old one, the wise one. Stop thinking about saving your face. Think of our lives and tell us your particularized world. Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp; if love so ignites your words they go down in flames and nothing is left but their scald. Or if, with the reticence of a surgeon's hands, your words suture only the places where blood might flow. We know you can never do it properly - once and for all. Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul. You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.


Toni Morrison


#prize #speech #experience

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.


Steven Wright


#irony #nobel-peace-prize #humor

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.


Desmond Tutu


#apartheid #attention #because #crucial #did

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!


Omar Bongo


#i #nobel #nobel peace prize #peace #prize

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.


John Galsworthy


#dreams #human-nature #inspirational-quotes #john-galsworthy #nobel-laureate

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.


Freeman Dyson


#been #get #great #him #human

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.


George Wald


#casts #especially #everywhere #found #grateful

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.


Seamus Heaney


#being #city #encountered #end #ever

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.


Alfred Day Hershey


#awards #bring #colleagues #curious #even






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