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

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

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

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.

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.

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.