Nobel Wisdom Quotes Book
1,000 Wisest Quotations from Laureates Compiled by David Pratt
Oct 11, 2009
Nobel Wisdom (RJ Books, 2008) is a collection of 1,000 motivating and inspiring quotes from Nobel laureates. Compiled by David Pratt, many of these quotations have never been previously anthologized.
The book showcases the genius of these Nobel Prize winners, along with their idealism, courage and concern for humanity. They are life quotes full of hope and wisdom, and by turns, witty and poignant. For example, Mother Teresa (Peace, 1979,) on love and affection, says, "We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love."
The 1,000 quotes in Nobel Wisdom are interspersed into 14 categories, namely: Achievement; Beliefs; Time, Life and Death; Human Qualities; Emotions; Human Relations; Mind, Knowledge, and Learning; Arts and Culture; Places; Politics and Economics; Science and Technology; Medicine and Health; War and Peace; and Last Words.
It also includes sections of short biographical profile of each of the 250 Nobel laureates quoted in the book, and a brief history of the Nobel Prize.
- Achievement Quotes – On achieving, achievement in work and The Nobel Prize quotations.
- Beliefs Quotes – On life meaning and significance, truth and falsehood, ideas, ideals, ideology, religion and materialism. Albert Einstein (Physics, 1921) says on meaning and significance, "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
- Time, Life, and Death Quotes – On life and lifespan, youth and age, death and mortality, epitaphs and eulogies, history and the past, and the future.
- Human Qualities Quotes – On good and evil, character and self-concept, courage and heroism, duty and responsibility, compassion, forgiveness, conformity and eccentricity, and stupidity.
- Emotions Quotes – On joy and happiness, affirmation and gratitude, beauty, pain and grief, indifference, hope and despair, and fear. Winston Churchill (Literature, 1953,) said about hope and despair, "Never flinch, never weary, never despair."
- Human Relations Quotes – On love and affection, marriage, sex, women and men, children and families, friendship, and solitude and loneliness. Marie Curie (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911,) says, "Family solidarity is after all the only good thing."
- Mind, Knowledge, and Learning Quotes – On thinking and thought, intellect and reason, insanity, genius and talent, knowledge and imagination, memory and oblivion, dreams and nightmares, philosophy, ethics and morals, critics and criticism, wisdom, fanaticism, and schools and teachers.
- Arts and Culture Quotes – On the arts and artists, language and literature, writers and writing, poets and poetry, books, and the media.
- Places Quotes – On America and Americans, Britain and the British, Germany and the Germans, Russia and the Russians, France and the French, Israel, the Third World, Heaven and Hell, and home and the homeland.
- Politics and Economics Quotes – On politics and politicians, government, democracy, tyranny and dictatorship, revolution, terrorism, freedom, justice, racism, Marxism and Communism, patriotism, economics, wealth and poverty.
- Science and Technology Quotes – On science and scientists, physics, the universe, evolution, genetics, the environment, mathematics, and technology.
- Medicine and Health Quotes – On food and hunger, and drink and drugs. Sir Alexander Fleming (Medicine, 1945,) on a treatment of common cold, "A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime – it's not very scientific, but it helps."
- War and Peace Quotes – On war and conflict, armies and armaments, nuclear weapons, the Holocaust, and peace and peacemaking.
- Last Words Quotes – The final words of some laureates that may well stand for all of them – who took leave of life with the same grace as they had lived it, leaving the world a better place. One of the last quotes comes from Albert Einstein (Physics, 1921,) just before he passed away. He said, "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."
David Pratt is a lifelong collector of quotations. He was born in England and studied at Oxford, Harvard, and the University of Toronto. Pratt is a Professor Emeritus at Queen's University in Canada, where he taught from 1969 to 1997.
An author of numerous academic books and papers, his poetry and short stories have appeared in more than 100 literary journals in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia.
Source:
- Nobel Wisdom: The 1000 Wisest Things Ever Said (ISBN: 978-1-906217-42-6, 268 pages).
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