At 100, I Have A Mind That

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.

The Instruments, Glassware, And Chemical Reagents Necessary For My Project Were The Same As My 19th-century Predecessors Had.

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.

At 100, I Have A Mind That Is Superior - Thanks To Experience - Than When I Was 20.

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.