1000 Wisest Things Ever Said

by David Pratt

Since they were first awarded in 1901, Nobel Prizes have honoured hundreds of people who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit on mankindâ€. This collection of quotations, from laureates including Winston Churchill, Toni Morrison and Max Planck, shares their astute, witty and poignant observations on such topics as truth and falsehood, marriage, democracy and technology.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2012

About the author

David Pratt, author of The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Laureates, is Professor Emeritus at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. A passionate scholar who reads in several languages, he has assembled a collection of 8000 quotations from Nobel Prize Winners culled from their works. He also is the author JFK, Oswald, Cuba and The Mafia: A Chronological History which is a time-line of established facts about the assassination of President Kennedy. His conclusions based on the timeline differ from that of Warren Commission, but the details are there for reader to decide.