Nobel Laureate Quotes

Elie Wiesel

Eugene O'Neill

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Emilio Segrè

Ronald Ross

Camillo Golgi

Otto Heinrich Warburg

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

If active managers win, it has to be at the expense of other active managers. And when you add them all up, the returns of active managers have to be literally zero, before costs. Then after costs, it's a big negative sign

Ultimately, progress in applications is not deterministic, but opportunistic, exploiting for new applications whatever new science and technology happen to be coming along.

Herbert Kroemer

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

That strategic rivalry in a long-term relationship may differ from that of a one-shot game is by now quite a familiar idea. Repeated play allows players to respond to each other's actions, and so each player must consider the reactions of his opponents in making his decision. The fear of retaliation may thus lead to outcomes that otherwise would not occur. The most dramatic expression of this phenomenon is the celebrated "Folk Theorem." An outcome that Pareto dominates the minimax point is called individually rational. The Folk Theorem asserts that any individually rational outcome can arise as a Nash equilibrium in infinitely repeated games with sufficiently little discounting.

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral cortex. I let the silver nitrate react with pieces of brain hardened in potassium dichromate. I have already obtained magnificent results and hope to do even better in the future.

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito.... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Chemistry is positioned between the simple world of atoms and the complex nature of biological molecules and real materials.

To apply tools of science, physicians must learn to think like scientists. They must acquire technical ability, taste in evaluating experiments, and a sense of creative adventure.

Michael Stuart Brown

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavor comes to bloom — to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago — to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.

George Emil Palade

Physics brings the ferment bands into existence but organic chemistry is necessary for the identification or creation of these bands.... Indeed, the ferment substance - though being so near to us - is, like the substance of the stars, inaccessible for us.

Otto Heinrich Warburg