Curie Quotes

“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 subsidies indispensable to fully effective work.”
― Marie Curie

“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, her objectivity, her incorruptible judgement— all these were of a kind seldom found joined in a single individual... The greatest scientific deed of her life—proving the existence of radioactive elements and isolating them—owes its accomplishment not merely to bold intuition but to a devotion and tenacity in execution under the most extreme hardships imaginable, such as the history of experimental science has not often witnessed.”
― Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“And as I see it they are all innocent. Even the guilty. Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it, Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Love remains mortal”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.”
― Isaac Asimov, Views From a Height: A Brilliant Overview of the Exciting Realms of Science

“Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life—this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.”
― Irène Joliot-Curie

“At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies themselves were away travelling. It was a cross between a stable and a potato-cellar, and, if I had not seen the worktable with the chemical apparatus, I would have thought it a practical joke.

(Wilhelm Ostwald on seeing the Curie's laboratory facilities.)”
― Wilhelm, Ostwald

“I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies...”
― Ernest Rutherford

“Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.”
― Francis Perrin, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

“Good, you're awake. I trust you've healed enough over the past few hours to be a little more coherent, and little less miserable"
"coherent, yes. Less miserable, no. Just a
deferent kind of misery”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“And I have faith that you will shine in your final test.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“very painful comedy of errors”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“I dreamed of Paris as if it were salvation, but I long ago gave up hope of ever getting there.
And now that I have the opportunity, I don't know what to do with her.
-Marie Curie-”
― Richard Gunderman, Marie Curie: Pionierin, Nobelpreisträgerin, Entdeckerin der Radioaktivität