I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he carries a card which allows him to park his car anywhere with impunity. If only he could drive.
It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.
My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour conferred on us.
My numbers are Hall of Fame.
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
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.
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when the call came, it made it real. It was a pretty darned good feeling.
