It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
MARIE CURIEIt is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
MARIE CURIEA 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 CURIEIf I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
MARIE CURIEYou must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.
MARIE CURIEAll that I saw and learned was a new delight to me.
MARIE CURIEEach of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.
MARIE CURIEHave no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.
MARIE CURIEWe must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
MARIE CURIEIt was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
MARIE CURIEI am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
MARIE CURIERadium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
MARIE CURIEI was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
MARIE CURIEOne never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
MARIE CURIENothing 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 CURIEStability can only be attained by inactive matter.
MARIE CURIEScience is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
MARIE CURIE