Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.
MARIE CURIEFirst principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.
More Marie Curie Quotes
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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
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It’s always good to marry your best friend.
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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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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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You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.
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Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
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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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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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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.
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Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.
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All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me.
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Scientist believe in things, not in person.
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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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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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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
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