Marie Curie

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.”

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

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

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

“Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.”

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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