Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.
MARIE CURIEI have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
More Marie Curie Quotes
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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.
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Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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Science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
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You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.
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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
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Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
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More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.
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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
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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.
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My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.
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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, at whatever cost, must be attained.
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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
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Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
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We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again.
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All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me.
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Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.
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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.
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You will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn’t last.
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First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.
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It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
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It’s always good to marry your best friend.
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The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
MARIE CURIE