Marie Curie Quotes

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Marie Curie

Profession : Scientist

Birth : November 7, 1867

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

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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.

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I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.

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The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.

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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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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.

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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.

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

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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.

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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.

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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

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