Quotes by Marie Curie

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. (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)

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)

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. (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)

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)

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. (Marie Curie)

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. (Marie Curie)

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. (Marie Curie)