Marie Curie QUOTES

1 " Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium. "

― Marie Curie

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

― Marie Curie

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

― Marie Curie

4 " Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. "

― Marie Curie

5 " 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. "

― Marie Curie

6 " Scientist believe in things, not in person "

― Marie Curie

7 " For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these servants of an idea the necessary means of work? Have they an assured existence, sheltered from care? The example of Pierre Curiee, and of others, shows that they have none of these things; and that more often, before they can secure possible working conditions, they have to exhaust their youth and their powers in daily anxieties. Our society, in which reigns an eager desire for riches and luxury, does not understand the value of science. It does not realize that science is a most precious part of its moral patrimony. Nor does it take sufficient cognizance of the fact that science is at the base of all the progress that lightens the burden of life and lessens its suffering. Neither public powers nor private generosity actually accord to science and to scientists the support and the subsidies indispensable to fully effective work. "

― Marie Curie

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

― Marie Curie

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

― Marie Curie

10 " You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful. "

― Marie Curie

11 " We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something. "

― Marie Curie

12 " Scientist believe in things, not in person "

― Marie Curie

13 " 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

14 " We must not forget that 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. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for mankind. "

― Marie Curie

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

― Marie Curie

16 " You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right. "

― Marie Curie

17 " Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. "

― Marie Curie

18 " We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. "

― Marie Curie

19 " The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace. "

― Marie Curie

20 " I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician, he is also a child place before natural phenomenon, which impress him like a fairy tale. "

― Marie Curie

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