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Title:

The impossible takes longer : the 1,000 wisest things ever said by Nobel Prize laureates / compiled by David Pratt.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher:

Walker & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xvi, 268 p. : ill. ; 21cm.

Subject:

Quotations, English.
Nobel Prize winners--Quotations.
Nobel Prize winners--Biography.

Other Authors:

Pratt, David, 1939-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-199) and index. Appendix 2 ([p. 201]-256) contains brief biographies of the Nobel laureates quoted.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780802716378
0802716377

OCLC:

(OCoLC)153578294

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)