Marie Curie Quotes

Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire

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.
  
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.

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.

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

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. -

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
  
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.
  
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
  
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
  
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
  
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
  
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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