這位身材瘦小、盡職盡責、謙遜不凡的化學家，憑藉著二十世紀巨人般的道德毅力和智識氣度，系統地回憶起德國人間地獄，並堅持不懈地將其深思熟慮，最終以清晰樸實的文字將其闡釋得通俗易懂。
他深刻地洞察人類最美好事件和最卑微之事的細微運作。
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him.
