Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska , 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, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 November 1867
CountryPoland
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
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
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
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.
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.