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1867–1934 France
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
France Academics Chemists Nobel laureates Physicists Also known as: Curie, Marie, Madame Curie, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Marya Sklodowska
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Letter to her brother (1894)
In life, there's nothing to be feared, everything is to be understood.
Our Precarious Habitat (2006)
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
Madame Curie : A Biography (1937)
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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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.
Our Precarious Habitat (1973)
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Pierre Curie (1923)
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
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 in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
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.
Pierre Curie (1923)
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.
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies...
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
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