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marie curie
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
marie curie
I am one of those who think like nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
marie curie
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
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
I met pierre curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... a polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of pierre curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.
marie curie
I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. at times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.
marie curie
I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. the fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
marie curie
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
marie curie
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
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
all my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
marie curie
all my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. in fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in poland a preparation as complete as that of the french students following the same course.
marie curie
be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
marie curie
during the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
marie curie
during the year 1894, pierre curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. no one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
marie curie
have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.
marie curie
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.
marie curie
if I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
marie curie
in 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. at the end of the same year, the nobel prize was awarded jointly to becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.
marie curie
in 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
marie curie
