literary work

Madame Curie

biography by Eve Curie about Marie Curie

Not who you're looking for? Others named Madame Curie: 1943 American film by Mervyn LeRoy

Notable quotes

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
— Letter to her brother (1894)
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
— Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science‎ (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
— Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162
“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.”
— Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
— Java Connector Architecture: Building Custom Connectors and Adapters‎ (2002) by Atul Apte, p. 69
“In life, there's nothing to be feared, everything is to be understood.”
— As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (2006) by Melvin A. Benarde

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