Quotes by Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

Age

Children

Hatred

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

Encouraging

Inspirational

Uplifting

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.

Army

Home

Spring

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.

Expression

Science

Snakes

At 100, I have a mind that is superior – thanks to experience – than when I was 20.

Mind

Superiors

Thanks

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Father

Latin

School

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

Baby

Girl

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

Brain

Firsts

Too Much

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.

Born

Country

Masculine And Feminine

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.

Bedroom

Joy

Race

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Baby

Bedroom

Behind You

Body

Born

Brain

Century

Chemicals

Children

Complexes

Country

Cutting

Discovery

Doe

Encouraging

Enough

Excellent

Expression

Father

Fear

Firsts

Girl

Hatred

Helping Others

Home

Inspirational

Joy

Latin

Lonely

Long

Masculine And Feminine

Medicine

Men

Messages

Mind

Mother

Nobel

Past

People

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Persecution

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Quotes by Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

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.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior – thanks to experience – than when I was 20.

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

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

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

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.

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.

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