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Marie Curie

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who made significant contributions to the study of radiation. She was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867 and received a general education in local schools before moving to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne. There, she met Pierre Curie, a professor in the School of Physics, and they were married in 1895. Together, they discovered the elements polonium and radium and were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, along with Henri Becquerel. Marie received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her work characterizing the properties of radium and investigating its therapeutic potential.

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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

— Marie Curie

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

— Marie Curie

"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

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

— Marie Curie

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

— Marie Curie

"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 must be attained."

— Marie Curie

"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

"We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something."

— Marie Curie

"Scientist believe in things, not in person"

— Marie Curie

"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

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

— Marie Curie

"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 mankind."

— Marie Curie

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

— Marie Curie

"You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right."

— Marie Curie

"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."

— Marie Curie

"For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these servants of an idea the necessary means of work? Have they an assured existence, sheltered from care? The example o"

— Marie Curie

"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. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research."

— Marie Curie

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

— Marie Curie

"The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace."

— Marie Curie

"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 place before natural phenomenon, which impress him like a fairy tale."

— Marie Curie

"Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people."

— Marie Curie

"So perished the hope founded on the wonderful being who thus ceased to be. In the study room to which he was never to return, the water buttercups he had brought from the country were still fresh."

— Marie Curie

"We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again"

— Marie Curie

"All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me..."

— Marie Curie

"first principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events"

— Marie Curie

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing MUST be attained."

— Marie Curie

"Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

— Marie Curie

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

— Marie Curie

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