Rita Levi-Montalcini citations

Rita Levi-Montalcini , chevalier grand-croix de l'OMRI, est une neurologue italienne, lauréate avec Stanley Cohen du prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine en 1986 pour sa découverte du facteur de croissance nerveuse.

Elle est, du 5 janvier 2007 jusqu'à sa mort, la lauréate vivante la plus âgée et reste la lauréate ayant vécu le plus longtemps de tous les lauréats du prix Nobel. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. avril 1909 – 30. décembre 2012
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Rita Levi-Montalcini: Citations en anglais

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

Source: Quoted in Associated Press obituary http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50324234/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UO09q6w1fTp

“Rare are those people who use the mind, few use the heart and really unique are those who use both.”

Source: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.

“Better to add life to your days than days to your life.”

Source: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.

“I'm an atheist: I don't know what it means to believe in God.”

Source: 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.”

Source: 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.

“I have lost a bit of my sight, much of my hearing. At conferences, I can't see the presentations and can't hear well. But I think more now than when I when I was twenty. The body can do whatever it likes. I am not the body: I am the mind.”

Source: In an interview with Paolo Giordano, 100 anni di futuro, Wired, n. 1, marzo 2009.
Source: 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.
Source: 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.

“She had this feeling for what was happening biologically. She was an intuitive observer, and she saw that something was making these nerve connections grow and was determined to find out what it was.”

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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“The allegations against Fidia cannot be true. The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.”

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

“Everything came easy to me in life. I could always shake off difficulties, like water on a duck's wings.”

Source: In an interview with Paolo Giordano, 100 anni di futuro, Wired, n. 1, marzo 2009.

“Man is ruined by servility, conformism, obsequiousness, rather than aggressiveness, which is much more common in the environment than within ourselves.”

Source: 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.

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