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Marie Curie Quotes - Page 2

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.

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 (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.97, Courier Corporation

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

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

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Quoted in Eve Curie Madame Curie (1937), ch.16 (translated by Vincent Sheean, 1943).

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'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.

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.

"Sur une Nouvelle Substance Fortement Radio- Active, Contenue dans la Pechblende" (1898). Coauthored with Pierre Curie and Gustave Bemont.