Zitat des Tages von 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.
The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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.
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.
I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
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.
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.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
