Tag: Marie Curie
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Marie Curie
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie
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Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day’s end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
Marie Curie
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When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
Marie Curie
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Marie Curie
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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
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In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
Marie Curie
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If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
Marie Curie