You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes.
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
Once in a while, I have to pinch myself to remind myself I am Nobel laureate, but that is not part of my work plan every day.
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.