Alfred Nobel

Inventor and philanthropist

Alfred Nobel’s views on destructive technology are discussed in the Nobel-hosted 1954 peace lecture. The lecture offers a later historical account of his remark to Bertha von Suttner, not a surviving recording of that conversation.

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3 quotes we’ve traced to Alfred Nobel

“Contentment is the only real wealth”

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“Home is where I work and I work everywhere”

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“My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses”

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