We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
MARIE CURIEThe various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.
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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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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 am among those who think that science has great beauty.
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The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.
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Life is not easy for any for us.
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Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.
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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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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 one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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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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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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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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