Marie Curie Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Humanity

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.83, Courier Corporation

• We must not forget that 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 view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Discovery, Views

  Marie Curie's lecture at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, May 14, 1921.

• 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 genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

  Marie Curie

  Time, Work, Responsibility

  "Pierre Curie". Book by Marie Curie translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, 1923.

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

  Marie Curie

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

  "White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures". Book by Robert B. Taylor, 2008.

• 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 Curie

  Men, Humanity, Dreamer

  "Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe". Book by Michael A. Dopita and Ralph S. Sutherland, 2003.

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