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

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 to make discoveries.

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

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

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

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 at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.

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, of this country... No other country has such human capital.