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**Witty, incisive observations on such universally meaningful topics as courage and compassion by many of the greatest minds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.** Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been the hallmark of genius, but Nobel laureates tend to be more than merely brilliant―their idealism, courage, and concern for humanity have also made them sources of inspiration and wisdom. Contrary to the notion that geniuses are absentminded eccentrics who lead solitary lives, many Nobel laureates have been social activists and political leaders, and some have been polymaths whose interests and talents were diverse, such as Philip Noel-Baker, winner of the 1959 Peace prize, who ran in three Olympic Games. The quotations―drawn from biographies, published articles, and speeches―are grouped by such themes as achievement, truth and falsehood, war and conflict, technology, and more. "The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer," said Fritjof Nansen, who personally repatriated more than 400,000 prisoners of war after World War I, and helped save millions of Russians from starvation. Albert Einstein prudently advised, "Not everything that co

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Author

Pratt, David

Publisher

Bloomsbury USA;Walker & Co

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802716378

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Memoir, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24