You've Been Thinking About Something Without Willing

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.

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

My Life Has Been Enriched By Excellent Human Relations, Work And Interests. I Have Never Felt Lonely.

I Told Mother Of My Decision To Study Medicine. She Encouraged Me To Speak To Father... I Began In A Roundabout Way... He Listened, Looking At Me With That Serious And Penetrating Gaze Of His That Caused Me Such Trepidation, And Asked Whether I Knew What I Wanted To Do.

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.