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• Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Country, Book, Writing

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• 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

  Family, Careers, Easy

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

  Marie Curie

  Perseverance, Years, Long

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• 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

  Men, Humanity, Dreamer

  "Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe". Book by Michael A. Dopita and Ralph S. Sutherland, 2003.

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

  Marie Curie

  Truth, Science, Hunting

  "The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007". Book by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, November 6, 2006.

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• Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last

  Marie Curie

  Love, Remember You, Remembers You

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• We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.

  Marie Curie

  Forget, Discovery In Science, Prove

  Marie Curie's lecture at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, May 14, 1921.

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• Scientist believe in things, not in person

  Marie Curie

  Believe, Chemistry, Scientist

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• Life is not easy for any for us.

  Marie Curie

  Life Is, Easy, Life Is Not Easy

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• I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple.

  Marie Curie

  Simple, Advancement, Taught

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• I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Thinking, Discovery

  "White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures". Book by Robert B. Taylor, 2008.

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• It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

  Marie Curie

  Determination, Ambition, Desire

  Marie Curie (1921). “The Discovery of Radium: Address by Madame M. Curie at Vassar College, May 14, 1921”

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• Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

  Marie Curie

  Body, Sparks, Fresh Start

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• Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

  Marie Curie

  People, Elements

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• 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

  Science, Dark, Giving

  Marie Curie's instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 137), 1937.

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• More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

  Marie Curie

  Garden, House, Needs

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• In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Reality, Accounts

  Quoted in Eve Curie Madame Curie (1937), ch.16 (translated by Vincent Sheean, 1943).

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• I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

  Marie Curie

  Knowledge, Science, Unique

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• Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge."

  Marie Curie

  Glasses, Evil, Annoyed

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• When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used in a chemical laboratory and those used in a chemical laboratory, and those which serve for experiments in physics, become radioactive in a short time and act upon photographic plates through black paper. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes all become radioactive.

  Marie Curie

  Taken, Science, Clothes

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• The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

  Marie Curie

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  "Sur une Nouvelle Substance Fortement Radio- Active, Contenue dans la Pechblende" (1898). Coauthored with Pierre Curie and Gustave Bemont.

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• When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.

  Marie Curie

  Taken, Air, Dust

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• I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.

  Marie Curie

  Real, Believe, Sacrifice

  Marie Curie's letter to Eve Curie Labouisse (July 1929), as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 341), 1937.

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• We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.

  Marie Curie

  Country, Believe, Names

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• This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.

  Marie Curie

  Mean, Science, Balance

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