"The fact, however, remains that a lot of wonderful people never received the prize. Just take a few examples from among Hungarian physicists. Von Neumann never received the prize and neither did Szilard."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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Vitaly Ginzburg, as quoted in Candid Science VI: More Conversations with Famous Scientists (2006) by István Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai, p. 811