Madame Marie Curie quotes

" Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. " # Ideas

" All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. " # Children # Life and Living # Nature

" I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy. " # Progress

" Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. " # Research # Dreams # Freedom

" 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 must be attained. " # Perseverance # Belief # Confidence

" Science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. " # Science and Scientists # Literature # War

" When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive. " # Caution # Faith # Books - Reading

" I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. " # Evil

" Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. " # Life and Living

" You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. " # Service # Responsibility # Duty