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Quotes by Marie Curie


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
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
– Marie Curie
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
– Marie Curie
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
– Marie Curie
I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
– 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 must be attained.
– Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
– Marie Curie
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his 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 we can be most useful.
– 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.
– Marie Curie
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
– Marie Curie
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
– 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
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