Alfred Nobel: Pacifist, Poet, and Inventor
He created the Nobel Prizes and dynamite, both of which are well known by many people today. The Prizes continue to help many people to continue their research as well as help others in need. Dynamite has helped to advance explosives. Dynamite has also helped agriculture, industry, and scientific communities advance as well.
All in all, Alfred Nobel's inventions of dynamite and the Nobel Prizes were huge turning point in human achievement.
All in all, Alfred Nobel's inventions of dynamite and the Nobel Prizes were huge turning point in human achievement.
Quotes
"For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use." -Alfred Nobel
"Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilized nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops." -Alfred Nobel inside a letter to Bertha von Suttner
"I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life." -Alfred Nobel
"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age." -Alfred Nobel
"The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible." -Alfred Nobel
"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness." -Alfred Nobel
"Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilized nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops." -Alfred Nobel inside a letter to Bertha von Suttner
"I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life." -Alfred Nobel
"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age." -Alfred Nobel
"The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible." -Alfred Nobel
"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness." -Alfred Nobel