Marie Curie Quotes

Poland, Physicist
November 7, 1867 – July, 4, 1934.

Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/; French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska;[a] 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) 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, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

Also known as Chemist

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
- Time
- World
- Work
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, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie
- Life
- Believe
- Confidence

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

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

Marie Curie
- Done
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

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

Marie Curie
- Truth
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
- Life
- Time
- May

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

Marie Curie
- Life
- Nature
I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.

Marie Curie
- Work
- Believe
- Real