1- “The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy… luminous energy.” -Marie Curie
2- “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
3- “My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.” -Marie Curie
4- “When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one’s clothes, all become radioactive.” -Marie Curie
5- “We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.” -Marie Curie
6- “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
7- “There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.” -Marie Curie
8- “Scientist believe in things, not in person.” -Marie Curie
9- “If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.” -Marie Curie
10- “I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.” -Marie Curie
11- “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
12- “Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.” -Marie Curie
13- “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
14- “More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.” -Marie Curie
15- “I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple.” -Marie Curie
16- “I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.” -Marie Curie
17- “We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.” -Marie Curie
18- “I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.” -Marie Curie
19- “It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.” -Marie Curie
20- “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
21- “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 Curie
22- “In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.” -Marie Curie
23- “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
24- “Life is not easy for any for us.” -Marie Curie
25- “Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn’t last.” -Marie Curie
26- “I am among those who think that science has great beauty.” -Marie Curie
27- “It’s always good to marry your best friend.” -Marie Curie
28- “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” -Marie Curie
29- “Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.” -Marie Curie
30- “The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace.” -Marie Curie
31- “Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.” -Marie Curie
32- “I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” -Marie Curie
33- “All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” -Marie Curie
34- “Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.” -Marie Curie
35- “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
36- “We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” -Marie Curie
37- “Nothing in this world is to be feared… only understood.” -Marie Curie
38- “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.” -Marie Curie
39- “First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.” -Marie Curie
40- “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” -Marie Curie
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