Quotes by Marie Curie

About Marie Curie:

Marie Sk?odowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Marie Curie

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

Marie Curie

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.

Marie Curie

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.

Marie Curie

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

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For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these servants of an idea the necessary means of work? Have they an assured existence, sheltered from care?...

Marie Curie

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

Marie Curie

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician, he is also a child place before natural phenomenon, which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

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

Marie Curie

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 Curie

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

Marie Curie

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.

Marie Curie

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.

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

Marie Curie

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

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After all, 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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Author Bio

  • NameMarie Curie
  • DescriptionFrench-Polish physicist and chemist
  • AliasesMaria Salomea Sk?odowska; Marie Sk?odowska-Curie
  • BornNovember 7, 1867
  • DiedJuly 4, 1934
  • CountryRussian Empire; France; Poland
  • ProfessionPhysicist; Chemist
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Chemistry; Nobel Prize In Physics; Elliott Cresson Medal; Willard Gibbs Award