To advance science is highly HONOURABLE, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has DONE much to RAISE the prestige of SCIENTIFIC discovery.

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.

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.

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.

Cricket pays WELL, so a lot of people are naturally DRAWN towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not EASY. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic MEDAL. It should be TREATED at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

I CAME to FEEL that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least THREE contemporary novelists who DESERVE the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

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.

PLEASE STOP teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel PRIZE? Not EVERYBODY gets a trophy.

During my Ph.D. program, I became interested in the informational STRUCTURE of markets that turned into the WORK on signaling, which was the PART of my early work that was recognized for the Nobel Prize, but it was not REALLY a subject at the TIME.

Dr. KING's Nobel PRIZE had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he REALIZED at the TIME.

FORGET about Nobel PRIZES; they aren't REALLY very IMPORTANT.

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's FAITH in the CONTRIBUTION that human thought, directed to science and ART, can MAKE to human welfare.

You need to be curious, COMPETITIVE, CREATIVE, stubborn, self-confident, SKEPTICAL, PATIENT and be lucky to WIN a Nobel.

We three have never been very GOOD chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel PRIZE in Chemistry. The Peter Principle SAYS that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have REACHED this remarkable point.

If you go into SCIENCE, I THINK you BETTER go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very BRIGHT and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.