Career Quotes by Renato Dulbecco

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

— Renato Dulbecco

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

— Renato Dulbecco

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given…

— Renato Dulbecco

Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for me a…

— Renato Dulbecco

We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like…

— Renato Dulbecco

I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.

— Renato Dulbecco

People try to do better than other people. It's an incentive.

— Renato Dulbecco

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

— Renato Dulbecco

Society does not seem prepared to accept the sacrifices required for an effective prevention of cancer.

— Renato Dulbecco

Competition, I think, is always a good thing.

— Renato Dulbecco

Indiana was so lovely. Just so lovely.

— Renato Dulbecco

The life I remember begins at Imperia, where I went to school, including the Ginnasio-Liceo 'De Amicis.'

— Renato Dulbecco