20 quotes from Marie Curie to meet this revolutionary scientist

Life doesn’t deserve us to worry so much.

Nothing in life is to be feared, only understood. Now it’s time to understand more to fear less.

Each person must work for his or her betterment and, at the same time, share in the collective responsibility for all humanity.

I never see what’s already been done. I only see what remains to be done.

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

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child facing natural phenomena that strike him as if they were fairy tales.

I was taught that the path of progress was neither quick nor easy.

I don’t have a dress except what I wear every day. If you’re kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so I can put it on later for the lab.

I am one of those who think like the Nobel, that humanity will attract more good than evil from new discoveries.

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

A great discovery does not come from the brain of a ready-made scientist, it is the fruit of an accumulation of preliminary work.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

We must believe that we are talented at some things, and that this thing, at any cost, must be achieved.

There is always the chance that a scientific discovery will become like radium, a boon to humanity.

Scientists believe in things, not people.

It is important to make a dream out of life and a dream come true.

Humanity needs practical men, who make the most of their work and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers.

All my life, the new discoveries of nature have made me happy as a child.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own betterment while at the same time sharing a general responsibility for all of humanity.