Marie Curie Quotes
20 quotes from Marie Curie — Physicist and chemist who discovered polonium and radium..
“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.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
“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.”
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
“If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.”
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.”
“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
“You must never be afraid of what you are doing when it feels right.”
“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
“I am among those who believe with Nobel that humanity will obtain more good than evil from future discoveries.”
“I then thought that the greater activity of the natural minerals might be determined by the presence of a small quantity of a highly-radioactive material, different from uranium, thorium and the elements known at present.”
“Tons of material have to be treated in order to extract radium from the ore. The quantities of radium available in a laboratory are of the order of one milligram, or of a gram at the very most, this substance being worth 400,000 francs per gram.”
“I thus feel that I interpret correctly the intention of the Academy of Sciences in assuming that the award of this high distinction to me is motivated by this common work and thus pays homage to the memory of Pierre Curie.”
“It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
“We have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.”
“I was born in Poland. I married Pierre Curie, and I have two daughters. I have done my work in France.”
