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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

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.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

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 got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.