Tim Hunt Quotes

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

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.

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

It's not because I'm lucky. I work very hard.

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest.

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

I've worked very hard for everything I have and nothing has come easy.

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

I believe that good things come to those who work.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

I'm not that smart. I work very hard.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

This is the honest-to-God truth: I just focus on the work, because if my work isn't good, then I won't succeed either way.

There's no shame in hard work.