All Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes
- 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… All
- Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them All
- At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience- than when i was 20. Experience
- It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future. Future
- My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely. Been
- If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts. Behind
- 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… April
- 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… Any
- 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,… Beauty
- 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. Absorb
- Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls. Adolescent
- The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. Century
- The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. Awarding
- 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… Adjust
- 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… Asked
- It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human… Brain
- 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… Adolescence
- 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… Brain
- If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize. Been
- 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… Bizarre
- After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands. Centuries
- The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us… All