Marie Quotes

• 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).

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  Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

  Marie Curie

  Thoughtful, Ideas, Gossip

  "Living Adventures in Science‎". Book by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, 1954.

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  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, Encouraging, Being Strong

  "Our Precarious Habitat". Book by Melvin A. Benarde, 1970.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

  Marie Curie

  Positive, Inspiring, Moving On

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• 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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  First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

  Marie Curie

  Self Confidence, Firsts, Principles

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• 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

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

  Marie Curie

  Change, Progress, Way

  "Java Connector Architecture: Building Custom Connectors and Adapters‎". Book by Atul Apte, 2002.

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

  Marie Curie

  Thinking, Fairy Tale, Scientist

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

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• We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

  Marie Curie

  Forget, Discovery In Science, Prove

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

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• 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

  Children, Fairy Stories, Hair

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• 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.

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• Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

  Marie Curie

  Fear, Understanding, Meaningful Life

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• We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Strength, Confidence, Perseverance

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

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  You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

  Marie Curie

  Educational, World, Individual

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

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• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  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, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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

  Marie Curie

  Life, Nature, Children

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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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.

  Marie Curie

  Science, History, Historical

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• 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.

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