Merit-Based Award Quotes

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.

The prestige of the Nobel Prize is due to many causes, but in particular to its twofold idealistic and international character: idealistic in that it has been designed for works of lofty inspiration; international in that it is awarded after the production of different countries has been minutely studied and the intellectual balance sheet of the whole world has been drawn up. Free from all other considerations and ignoring any but intellectual values, the judges have deliberately taken their place in what the philosophers have called a community of the mind.

I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.