Marie Curie Quotes, Thoughts and images

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

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

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

It's always good to marry your best friend.

Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

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

Life is not easy for any for us.

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.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through a lack of historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple.

More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

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.

When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.