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“For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these servants of an idea the necessary means of work? Have they an assured existence, sheltered from care? The example of Pierre Curiee, and of others, shows that they have none of these things; and that more often, before they can secure possible working conditions, they have to exhaust their youth and their powers in daily anxieties. Our society, in which reigns an eager desire for riches and luxury, does not understand the value of science. It does not realize that science is a most precious part of its moral patrimony. Nor does it take sufficient cognizance of the fact that science is at the base of all the progress that lightens the burden of life and lessens its suffering. Neither public powers nor private generosity actually accord to science and to scientists the support and the subs
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| (source) | Marie Curie (7 Nov 1867 - 4 Jul 1934) Polish-French chemist and physicist whose celebrated experiments (1898) on uranium minerals led to discovery of two new elements: polonium and radium. With Henri Becquerel and her husband, Pierre Curie, she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics. She was then sole winner of a second Nobel Prize in 1911, this time in Chemistry. Short biography of Marie Curie >> |
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~~[Anecdote]~~ Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
— Marie Curie
Anecdotal response to a reporter’s enquiry. As quoted in Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard, Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes (2000), 150. As yet, Webmaster has found no primary source for authentication.
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Marie Curie Quotes
With her husband, Pierre, Marie Curie was the pioneer in researching radioactivity. When he died suddenly, she refused a government pension and instead took his place as a professor at the University of Paris. She was awarded a Nobel Prize for her work, then became the first individ to win a second Nobel Prize, and she is the only Nobel Prize winner who fryst vatten also the mother of another Nobel Prize winner—Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie.
Selected Marie Curie Quotations
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."
"Another version: One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It fryst vatten only to be understood."
"We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this fryst vatten a proof that scientific work must not be con