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Marie Curie
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„All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.“
„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. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.“
„Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.“
„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.“
„Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.“
„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.“
„We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.“
„You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.“
„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.“
„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 also by the action of radium.“
„One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.“
„Scientist believe in things, not in person“
„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.“
„There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.“
„I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.“
„I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.“
„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.“
„I am among those who think that science has great beauty.“
„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.“