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.
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Marie Curie was a Polish-born physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields – Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. Her groundbreaking work laid the foundation for many developments in the field of nuclear physics.
1867–1934·lived 66 years
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.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
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.Madame Curie: A Biography, p. 222, 1937
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.The Discovery of Radium, p. 45, 1920
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.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Living Adventures in Science, Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, 1972
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.Letter to her brother Joseph, 1894-03-18
That’s all 7 quotes by Marie Curie.