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.

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About Marie Curie

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Maria Salomea Skłodowska Curie (née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), better known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor...

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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

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

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

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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before… He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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