Academic Honor Quotes

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.

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

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

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 received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy.

An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.

I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial like me.

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 know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.