Marie Curie Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• 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

  Science, Dark, Giving

  Marie Curie's instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 137), 1937.

• 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. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

• 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.

• Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Country, Book, Writing

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

  Marie Curie

  Motivational, Science, World

• 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 Curie

  Science, History, Historical

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

  Marie Curie

  Truth, Science, Hunting

  "The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007". Book by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, November 6, 2006.

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

  Marie Curie

  Science, Reality, Accounts

  Quoted in Eve Curie Madame Curie (1937), ch.16 (translated by Vincent Sheean, 1943).

• I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

  Marie Curie

  Knowledge, Science, Unique

• This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.

  Marie Curie

  Mean, Science, Balance

• When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used in a chemical laboratory and those used in a chemical laboratory, and those which serve for experiments in physics, become radioactive in a short time and act upon photographic plates through black paper. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes all become radioactive.

  Marie Curie

  Taken, Science, Clothes

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

  Marie Curie

  Science, Liberty, World

  Marie Curie, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1963). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.85, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Marie Curie

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  "Sur une Nouvelle Substance Fortement Radio- Active, Contenue dans la Pechblende" (1898). Coauthored with Pierre Curie and Gustave Bemont.

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