Ernest Walton Quotes

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

It doesn't matter who you are, how many awards you've won, how popular you are, or how much critical acclaim you've had.

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not very important, the ones that count are the scientific and literary prizes

You have to be great to get Doyle's seal of approval.

On the whole, it is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.

I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

I think there's a lot of factors that go into the whole awards thing. I've never been that big a fan of it.

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me.

I don't give much thought to individual awards.

I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.

Do you want to be the guy with a game named after you or be the one with 18 Oscar nominations?

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

I honestly don't care about individual awards or statistics.

Anytime that people feel that you accomplished enough to enter into a Hall of Fame, of course this is a tremendous, tremendous thrill for me.

The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are - the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody's going to listen to it, and they'll preface what I say, 'Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.'

I have not hung a single award on my walls, including the Padma Shri.

When you come to Juve, it's because you've been chosen.

Awards and nominations really help sell films.

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

I don't believe in awards, and I think only film fare awards are faring.