Alfred Nobel
Inventor
1833-10-21 – 1896-12-10
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor known for developing dynamite and holding numerous patents. He founded the Nobel Prizes through his will. He died in 1896.
Quotes by Alfred Nobel
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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
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Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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