Marie Sklodowska-Curie

Quote: Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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 Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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 Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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 placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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 Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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 Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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 Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. [Marie Sklodowska-Curie]

Quote: 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 Sklodowska-Curie]

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