“At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20.”
Источник: Quoted in Associated Press obituary http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50324234/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UO09q6w1fTp
Ри́та Ле́ви-Монтальчи́ни — итальянский нейробиолог, лауреат Нобелевской премии по физиологии и медицине 1986 года, которую она получила вместе со Стэнли Коэном за открытие факторов роста, в частности, NGF. Пожизненный сенатор Итальянской республики. Wikipedia
“At 100, I have a mind that is superior — thanks to experience — than when I was 20.”
Источник: Quoted in Associated Press obituary http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50324234/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UO09q6w1fTp
Источник: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
Of the fact that she never married; quoted in Associated Press obituary.
“Better to add life to your days than days to your life.”
Источник: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
“I'm an atheist: I don't know what it means to believe in God.”
Источник: Interview with Piergiorgio Odifreddi in Incontri con menti straordinarie (TEA, Milano, 2007), ISBN 978-88-502-1523-2.
“The women who changed the world never needed to show anything other than their own intelligence.”
Источник: Cited in Addio a Rita Levi Montalcini, scienziata e donna straordinaria http://www.panorama.it/scienza/rita-levi-montalcini-morta/, Panorama.it, 30 dicembre 2012.
Источник: In an interview with Paolo Giordano, 100 anni di futuro, Wired, n. 1, marzo 2009.
Источник: Cited by Elisabetta Intini, Addio alla signora della scienza, le sue frasi più belle http://www.focus.it/scienza/addio-alla-signora-della-scienza-le-sue-frasi-piu-belle, Focus.it, 31 dicembre 2012.
Источник: Cited in Addio Rita Levi Montalcini, le frasi più belle di un genio gentile http://www.vanityfair.it/news/italia/12/12/30/rita-levi-montalcini-morta-frasi, VanityFair.it, 30 dicembre 2012.
Stanley Cohen, quoted in New York Times obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/science/dr-rita-levi-montalcini-a-revolutionary-in-the-study-of-the-brain-dies-at-103.html?_r=0
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Obituary in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini
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Rebutting allegations that the pharmaceutical company Fidia had paid for her to get her Nobel prize. Quoted in Obituary in The Guardian
“After centuries of dormancy, young women can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.”
Quoted in Obituary in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/30/rita-levi-montalcini
Quoted in New York Times obituary http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/science/dr-rita-levi-montalcini-a-revolutionary-in-the-study-of-the-brain-dies-at-103.html?_r=0
Источник: In an interview with Paolo Giordano, 100 anni di futuro, Wired, n. 1, marzo 2009.
Источник: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
Источник: From the presentation Elogio dell'imperfezione (Garzanti, 1987), Liceo classico Massimo d'Azeglio, Torino; cited in Giovanni Berlinguer, Il leopardo in salotto, Editori Riuniti, 1990.