Marie Curie quotes

Born
 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire.

Died
4 July 1934.

Occupation
Scientist.

Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
– Marie Curie

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

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
– Marie Curie

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

In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts.
– Marie Curie

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

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
– Marie Curie

In 1903, I finished my doctor’s thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.
– Marie Curie

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
– Marie Curie

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.
– Marie Curie

The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
– Marie Curie

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

If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
– Marie Curie

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.
– Marie Curie

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

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
– Marie Curie

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 national misfortune.
– Marie Curie

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.
– Marie Curie

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

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.
– Marie Curie