Nobel Lecture Quotes

#1. In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

Frederick Soddy

#2. As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

Joseph Stiglitz

#3. Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

Alexander Grothendieck

#4. Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

#5. One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unlocks each door.

John H. Van Vleck

#6. Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.

James Mercer

#7. That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

Kim Edwards

#8. I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. Exercising gives me endorphins and energy. I do it four days a week.

Nina Dobrev

#12. Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

Anne Fadiman

#13. Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.

Sheldon L. Glashow

#14. There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. I understand that my BODY is "The Temple" of God.

Lee Vickers

#16. they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way,

Philip Pullman

#17. Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.

Glenda Helms