Alfred Nobel

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriety and I have no taste for its buzz.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

I consider it a great good fortune to have a large, well-equipped laboratory.

I have not the slightest merit in having put together a fortune from nitroglycerin, as I was guided not by a desire for wealth but by a passion for invention.

I would rather take care of the stomachs of the living than the glory of the departed in the form of monuments.

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

The best excuse for the fallen ones is that Madame Justice herself is one of them.

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops.

The only patent I ever obtained was the one for dynamite.

There is nothing that can be changed as completely as the history of the human race by a force that is placed in the hands of the researcher.

To spread knowledge is to spread well-being. I mean general well-being, not individual prosperity, but with this general well-being, the individual also prospers.

We build upon the sand, and the older we become, the more unstable becomes the foundation.

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

I have a high regard for the German language because of its clarity and logic, but also because it is the language of my beloved mother.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.