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 unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

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

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

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

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 and you suddenly see the answer.

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 unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.