Marie Curie

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”