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It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

— Marie Curie

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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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In life, there's nothing to be feared, everything is to be understood.

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

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