Charles Glover Barkla Quotes

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

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

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.

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.

It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say 'thank you' for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics and chemistry have received this prize.

I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult for me to believe that it is true.

There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.

I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.

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.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

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

Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.

I was 18 when I was presented with the Arjuna Award. To say it feels really good would be an understatement. But I don't know how else to convey the feeling. I am grateful for having received this prestigious award at such a young age.

I am hugely honoured and proud to be receiving a knighthood.