Quotes by Marie Curie

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

“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.”

“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, a...”

“Love's language is imprecise,fits more like mittens than gloves.”

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

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

“The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.”

“One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.”

“When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of ...”

“Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work wo...”

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

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

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

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

“All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despit...”

“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.”

“The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be...”

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

“Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific...”

“We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the sp...”