The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates
By David Pratt
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Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been the hallmark of genius, but Nobel laureates tend to be more than merely brilliant-their idealism, courage, and concern for humanity have also made them sources of inspiration and wisdom. Contrary to the notion that geniuses are absentminded eccentrics who lead solitary lives, many Nobel laureates have been social activists and political leaders, and some have been polymaths whose interests and talents were diverse, such as Philip Noel-Baker, winner of the 1959 Peace prize, who ran in three Olympic Games.
Most of the quotations have never been anthologized previously. There is a section of short biographical sketches of each of the roughly 250 laureates quoted in the book, a brief history of the Nobel Prize, and a complete list of every Nobel laureate through 2006. The Impossible Takes Longer is a remarkable assemblage of insightful, thought-provoking, sometimes humorous statements by some of the world's wisest men and women.
David Pratt
David Pratt is author of the Lambda-winning Bob the Book, Wallaçonia, Todd Sweeney, the Fiend of Fleet High, Looking After Joey, and a story collection, My Movie. His stories have appeared in several periodicals and anthologies. He has performed work for the theater at venues in New York City and Michigan and has published Two Plays: The Snow Queen and November Door. In 2020-2021 he published The Book of Humiliation, an "anti-novel" in 16 zines, designed by Michigan artist Nicholas Williams.
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