Promised Nobel Prize in Physics

"As a child, I promised my mother I would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. 50 years later, I said to my mother, 'See, I have kept my promise. I won the Nobel Prize.' 'No,' said my mother, 'You promised it would be in physics!'" – Kenzaburo Oe, awarded the 1994 Literature Prize

Kenzaburo Oe is shown speaking at a microphone beneath a screenshot of a joke about mistakenly fulfilling a childhood promise to win a Nobel Prize. The punchline is that he won the Literature Prize instead of the Physics Prize, making the promise technically but not literally fulfilled. It is shared as a reaction to pedantic misunderstandings and unexpected technicalities. EN: Kenzaburo Oe is shown speaking at a microphone beneath a screenshot of a joke about mistakenly fulfilling a childhood promise to win a Nobel Prize. The punchline is that he won the Literature Prize instead of the Physics Prize, making the promise technically but not literally fulfilled. It is shared as a reaction to pedantic misunderstandings and unexpected technicalities.

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