Rachel Simmons Quotes

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

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.

Olympic gold is obviously right up there with a grand slam. It's a big win. You can say it's more, you can say it's less, you can say it's equal. It's very much up there.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

I want to get me one of those titles.

One of my proudest moments in life was earning the valedictorian medal in high school. I worked so hard for it!

As soon as I learned that I was a finalist, it was no question in my mind that I was going to put myself into the competition for the Rhodes scholarship.

I was going to college on a full scholarship. I graduated summa cum laude. I was always on the dean's list. I was never a kid that started any kind of trouble.

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.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other letters that were awarded each year. One was in math and one was in science. I got the math one. But you didn't put it on a letter sweater and wear it around because they'd be throwing you in a wastebasket upside down on your head.

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

An overall title is one of the biggest things you can win in our sport.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

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

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

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

There's a lot of spotlight that comes along with being the best in the world.

It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.