Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, is the only woman to win the Nobel prize twice, and is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. Inspirational Marie Curie quotes about science, humanity and self confidence will spark greatness inside you to take action.
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Most Famous Marie Curie Quotes
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fearless. Marie Curie
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie
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. Marie Curie, Marie Curie quotes on life
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. Marie Curie
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. Marie Curie
First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events. Marie Curie
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. Marie Curie
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our 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 can be most useful. Marie Curie
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. Marie Curie
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. Marie Curie
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie
Nothing in this world is to be feared only understood.Marie Curie
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. Marie Curie
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie
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. Marie Curie
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. Marie Curie
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie
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. Marie Curie
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something. Marie Curie
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. Marie Curie
Scientist believe in things, not in person. Marie Curie
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Marie Curie
You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right. Marie Curie
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one’s clothes, all become radioactive. Marie Curie
Now is the time to understand more, so we fearless. Marie Curie, Marie Curie quotes on fear
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie
You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it Marie Curie
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. Marie Curie
Stability can only be attained by inactive matter. Marie Curie
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
The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace Marie Curie
The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium. Marie Curie
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty. Marie Curie, Marie Curie quotes on science
This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable. Marie Curie
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. Marie Curie
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science. Marie Curie
It’s always good to marry your best friend. Marie Curie
We have no money, no laboratory and no help in the conduct of this important and difficult task. It was like creating something out of nothing. Marie Curie
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. Marie Curie
It is important to make a dream of life and of a dream reality. Marie Curie
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. Marie Curie
A great discovery does not issue from a scientists brain ready made, like Minerva springing fully armed from Jupiter’s head; it is the fruit of an accumulation of preliminary work. Marie Curie
Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don’t know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory. Marie Curie
You’ll never make me believe women were made to walk on stilts. Marie Curie
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
There is nothing more wonderful than being a scientist, nowhere I would rather be than in my lab, staining up my clothes and getting paid to play. Marie Curie
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. Marie Curie
There is no connection between my scientific work and the facts of private life. Marie Curie
Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn’t last Marie Curie
Men of moral and intellectual distinction could scarcely agree to teach in schools where an alien attitude was forced upon them. Marie Curie
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science. Marie Curie
Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it. Marie Curie
