Marie Curie Quotes
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My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.
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Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.
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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
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When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
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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.
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
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Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
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Life is not easy for any for us.
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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.
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Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
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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.
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More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
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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.
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
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In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.
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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.
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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.
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First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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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.
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I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.
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