94 Quotes by 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.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance.

You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last

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.

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.

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

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.