Spinoza Prize

The NWO-Spinozapremie (NWO Spinoza Prize) is an annual award by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) of 2.5 million Euro, to be spent on new research. The award is the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. It is named after the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza.

Famous quotes containing the word prize:

    What we have we prize not to the worth
    Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
    Why, then we rack the value, then we find
    The virtue that possession would not show us
    Whiles it was ours.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)