Marie Curie Quotes

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spiri...

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

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others,...

The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a...

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...

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.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

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 vie...

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

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite a...

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would...

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

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...

Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of...

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 have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.