The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.
MARIE CURIEThe older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.
MARIE CURIEIn science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
MARIE CURIEIt 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.
MARIE CURIEMy husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.
MARIE CURIEWe must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
MARIE CURIERadium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
MARIE CURIEBe less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
MARIE CURIEOne never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
MARIE CURIENow is the time to understand more, so we fear less.
MARIE CURIEThere are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
MARIE CURIEScience is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
MARIE CURIENothing 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.
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.
MARIE CURIEAll my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
MARIE CURIEStability can only be attained by inactive matter.
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.
MARIE CURIE