Marie Curie

"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."

"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."

"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 co…"

"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."

"Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity at the American Institute of Physics"

"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 considere…"

"I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: howev…"