Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

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• You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash…
• Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them
• At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience- than when i was 20.
• It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.
• My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
• If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.
• I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do…
• I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more…
• I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine,…
• A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
• Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
• The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
• The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
• At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage…
• I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking…
• It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human…
• My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that…
• Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just…
• If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
• As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of…

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