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Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he c...

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

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense...

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

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, mac...

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

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m...

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I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer...

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

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The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with whic...

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

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the ...

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When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of...

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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care o...

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

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a ...

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...

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

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as ...

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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact,...

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Marie Curie

Physicist

Born: 1867-11-07

Died: 1934-07-04

Maria Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish-born scientist. The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, in 1903, for Physics, she became the first person to win two with the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She founded the Curie Institute.More