Irene Joliot-Curie quotes
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“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.”
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“The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.”
-- Irene Joliot-Curie
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“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”
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“Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.”
Source : 'Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill's' (1663)
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“The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.”
Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1842). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”
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“I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.”
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“I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.”
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