Talk:Marie Curie

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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." No source given in the 1973 book Our Precarious Habitat.
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • 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.
  • Science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
  • "The various reasons we have just enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which we propose to give the name of RADIUM."
  • We must act.
    • At the outbreak of World War I, on the need to train people to use X-rays to examine injuries.
  • When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.
  • "First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events."

French[edit]

Is anyone considering making a french edition of this page?--74.114.172.32 18:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Have you checked the French wikiquote? Ottawahitech (talk) 19:05, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]