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Marie Curie
Polish
Scientist
About the author
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.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Life
#Family
#Career
#Women
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
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.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Time
#Now
#Life
#Nothing
#Fear
#May
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,
Polish
Scientist
#Life
#Perseverance
#Confidence
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Science
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Truth
#Scientists
#Errors
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Will
#Evil
#Humanity
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#People
#Ideas
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Life
#Nature
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Science
#Sense
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,
Polish
Scientist
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Progress
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.
Marie Curie,
Polish
Scientist
#Day
#Dress