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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

Maybe for you in America, Dr. King has become boring because you hear about him so much. But for me, he is the man who has most inspired me.

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.