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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Life is not easy for any for us.
Scientist believe in things, not in person
It's always good to marry your best friend.
Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.
More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.
My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.
The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.
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.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.
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.
The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
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.
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.
In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts.
The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.
I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.
My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.
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.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
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.
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.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
