The impossible takes longer
Subtitle: the 1,000 wisest things ever said by Nobel Prize laureates
By: compiled by David Pratt
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780802716378
Subjects: Quotations, English.; Nobel Prize winners -- Quotations.; Nobel Prize winners -- Biography.; Quotations.; Nobel Prizes.
Genres: Quotations.; Biography.
Description: Quotations from Nobel Prize winners are grouped by such topics as achievement, beliefs, life and death, human qualities, emotions, human relations, knowledge and learning, arts and culture, places, politics, science, medicine, and war and peace.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-199) and index.

Appendix 2 ([p. 201]-256) contains brief biographies of the Nobel laureates quoted.