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
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
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 mankind.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
It's always good to marry your best friend.
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 genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.