Quotes by Rita Levi Montalcini

Neurologist and senator for life, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986, born thursday april 22, 1909 in Turin (Italy), died sunday december 30, 2012 in Rome (Italy)

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.
Rita Levi Montalcini
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    It is imperfection, not perfection, that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.
    Rita Levi Montalcini
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      Everyone says the brain is the most complex organ of the human body, as a doctor I agree. But as a woman I assure you that there's nothing of more complex than the heart, even today we aren't certain of its mechanisms. In the brain's reasoning there's a logic, in the heart's reasoning there's feelings.
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      Written on saturday january 22, 2011
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        I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything. Do not fear the difficulties: I've had many in the past and I crossed without fear, with total indifference for myself.
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