Quotes by : Alfred Nobel

The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those....

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpose....

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to....

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical....

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg....