Prizes Quotations | Page 2

The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.

All prizes are monetary and range from $10 to $750.

Gamers will compete for cash and prizes totaling more than $2 million simply by playing versions of their favorite skill-based games.

What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.

Dr. Pellegrino teaches by example and witnesses to the virtues he prizes in health care. He will bring to the Council wisdom, respectful discourse and a strong commitment to making health care work for the most vulnerable. All of us here at the Center have been receiving congratulatory phone calls and e-mail messages all week from friends and colleagues around the world.

There is a perception that the Chinese started out downtrodden and abused in the 19th century and gradually rose to the top of society as model minorities, and you see them winning Nobel Prizes and getting into our best colleges. But it is not a linear progression. Things don't always get better.

We make fun of each other, but it is a group of friends, and we are not any more competitive than a fantasy football league. There are no prizes for winning, but people still want to win.

We have constellation prizes for all of the games. No one will go away empty handed.

Every one is free to become whatever he can make of himself; free to transform himself from a rail splitter or a tanner or a canal-boy, into the nation's President. Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers. Wealth, position, influence, are prizes offered for energy; and every farmer's boy, every apprentice and clerk, every friendless and penniless immigrant, is free to enter the lists.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.