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Marie Curie

Polish Scientist

Born: Nov 7, 1867

Died: Jul 4, 1934

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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. Marie Curie

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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. Marie Curie

Has-Been See Only Remains Never Been Done Notices

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

Progress Way Neither Easy Nor Taught Swift

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

Natural Impress Though He Mere Tales Also Him Fairy Fairy Tales Scientist Were His Laboratory Child Natural Phenomena Confronting Technician Phenomena

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. Marie Curie

Great Science Beauty Think Those Am Who Among

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium. Marie Curie

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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. Marie Curie

Truth Down Hunt Hurry Instead Sadistic Scientists Errors Establishing Who

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience. Marie Curie

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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course. Marie Curie

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During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was. Marie Curie

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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world. Marie Curie

World Progress Beauty Believe Our Machinery Machines Though Our World Neither Runs Spirit Risk Allow Disappearing Adventure Also Scientific Reduced Scientific Progress Any Should Even Mechanisms Believed

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools. Marie Curie

Me Class Father Rest Free Finished First Country Year Fatigue Rank Hoping Having Only Take Studies Almost Study Schools Returned Always Fifteen Then Held Teach Warsaw Compelled Growth

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. Marie Curie

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Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life. Marie Curie

Life Me Simple Research Sympathy Dream See Entirely Habit Student Share He Soon Sincere Pierre Scientific Caught Scientific Research Came His Existence Asked Speaking Consecrated

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. Marie Curie

Death Knowledge Husband National Circles Immediately General General Knowledge Misfortune Name Felt Scientific Coming His Discoveries After Which Public Associated

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. Marie Curie

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