#nobel

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

— Abdus Salam

#colour #determine #distinction #generosity #his

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men. ↗

— توكل كرمان

#life #men #nobel-peace-prize #tawakkul-karman #women

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#in-praise-of-reading-and-fiction #nobel-prize #reading #life

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

— Craig Ferguson

#nobel-prize #obama #sacrilege #men

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars. ↗

— William Golding

#earth #environment #gaia #life #nature

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula. ↗

— George W. Beadle

#respect

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. ↗

— Peter Agre

#also #because #discoveries #fundamental #honor

The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#me #nobel #nobel prize #ones #prize

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#children #everybody #everyone #gets #just

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ↗

— Paul Berg

#basis #chemistry #dna #emergence #formed