Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".

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Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie, better known as Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".

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“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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