Swedish - Scientist | October 21, 1833 - December 10, 1896
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Alfred Nobel
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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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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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Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
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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.
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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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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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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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