The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

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 evolutionary gene expression.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

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 and do not fear anything.