Marie Curie Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
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“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
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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.”
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
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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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“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.”
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“You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it”
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“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
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“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
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“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”
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“Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.”
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“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But 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.”
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“The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace”
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“I am among those who think that science has great beauty.”
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“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“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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“First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.”
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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 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.”
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“Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.”
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“Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.”
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“The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.”
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“The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.”
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“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.”
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“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 placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.”
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