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" All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else. "

Renato Dulbecco

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" Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys. "

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" I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father. "

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" People try to do better than other people. It's an incentive. "

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" The life I remember begins at Imperia, where I went to school, including the Ginnasio-Liceo 'De Amicis.' "

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" Competition, I think, is always a good thing. "

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" We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself. "

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" Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for me a strong emotional appeal, which was reinforced by having an uncle who was an excellent surgeon. "

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" While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them. "

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