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Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.

Marie Curie

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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Believe Radium Science Substance
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
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Beauty Science Thinking
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
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Easy Inspirational Progress Swift Teaching Work Hard
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
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Build Change Hope Improvement Individual Inspirational World
Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.
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Dreams Fear Perfection Reach
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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Children Fairy Tale Impress Laboratory Natural Phenomena Scientist Technical
Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.
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Active Attain Matter Stable
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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Career Easy Family Frequent Life Question Science Women
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
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Discover Forget Hospital Prove Science Use
First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.
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Beat Event Inspirational Person Principle
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
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Adventure Curiosity See Spirit Vital
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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Birthday Comparison Enjoyment Experience Grace Moments Old Present
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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Believe Confidence Easy Gift Life Ourselves Perseverance Positive
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
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Discover Evil Goodness Humanity Thinking
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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Liberty Permit Science World
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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Ambition Contribution Desire Determination Permanent Science

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