36 Quotes by Rita Levi-Montalcini

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    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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    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.

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

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    You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.

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    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.

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