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Alfred Nobel [1833-1896] Swedish

Rank: 101
Scientist, Chemist

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist.
Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments.

Food, Age, Death, Hope, Imagination, Knowledge, Nature, Peace, Poetry, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.	Age	101
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.	Hope, Nature, Truth	102
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.	Knowledge	103
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.		104
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.		105
Contentment is the only real wealth.		106
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.		107
The truthful man is usually a liar.		108
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.	Death, Peace	109
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.	Food	110
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.		111
Worry is the stomach's worst poison.		112
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.		113
Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.		114
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.		115
Justice is to be found only in imagination.	Imagination	116
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.	Poetry	117
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.	Food	118
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.		119
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.		120
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.		121
Lying is the greatest of all sins.		122

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