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

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.

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

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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.

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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

—J. Robert Oppenheimer

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

—Igor Stravinsky

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

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