Marie Curie

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

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

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.

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

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

There are cruel, ignorant people who have tried to make my work appear bad. But it is not bad. It is good. It is for the good of humanity.

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.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not merely a technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

I am a woman, and I have done the work of a man.

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we were not afraid of anything, even of the difficulties of a material existence.

I have often been asked if I think that women should be allowed to vote. I think that women should be allowed to do anything that men are allowed to do.

I never had a moment of doubt that science was the right path for me.

I am not afraid of anything. I am only afraid of not being able to do my work.