Marie Curie Quotes

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.

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.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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

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

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

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

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.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it

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

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

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

Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.

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.

It's always good to marry your best friend.

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

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.

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.