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.
MARIE CURIELife 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.
More Marie Curie Quotes
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More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.
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Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
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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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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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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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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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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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Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach 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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All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me.
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First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
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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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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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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
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