Tag: Marie Curie
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
Marie Curie
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie
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The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
Marie Curie
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie
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During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
Marie Curie
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Marie Curie
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During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
Marie Curie
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In 1903, I finished my doctor’s thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.
Marie Curie
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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.
Marie Curie