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Marie Curie
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Quotes
- “We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one...”
- “Marie Curie made a detailed examination by the electrical method of the great majority of known substances, including th...”
- “I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship ...”
- “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own ...”
- “Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a hous...”
- “La vie n'est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. ...”
- “In the 1970s we were rediscovering women whose lives had been dropped out of history or distorted, like Susan B. Anthony...”
- “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We mu...”
- “Instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in 'Madame ...”
- “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 pra...”
- “Variant translation: A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phen...”
- “This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Laboui...”
- “Letter to Eve Curie (July 1929), as quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by...”
- “Marie Curie was at heart a Baconian, boiling tons of crude uranium ore to demolish the dogma of the indestructibility of...”
- “As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 341”
- “I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”
- “As quoted in The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007 (2006) by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, p. 44”
- “As quoted in Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe (2003) by Michael A. Dopita and Ralph S. Sutherland”
- “Java Connector Architecture: Building Custom Connectors and Adapters (2002) by Atul Apte, p. 69”
- “There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
- “Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162”
- “Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168”
- “This is actually is the last sentence of the Nobel lecture of her husband Pierre Curie.”
- “As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, Part 2, p. 116”
- “Cristina Siccardi, L'ateismo di Madame Curie, Europa Cristiana, 24 February 2019.”
- “Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity at the American Institute of Physics”
- “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
- “All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
- “Variant: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”
- “I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
- “Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (14 May 1921)”
- “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
- “Adrienne Rich Arts of the Possible (2001)”
- “Radio-activity by Ernest Rutherford”
- “Letter to her brother (1894)”
- “Nobel Lecture 1911”