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

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

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

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

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 I was not cut out to be a wife.

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.