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«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»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
benefit, considered, direct, done for, point of view, radium, scientific, scientific discovery, usefulness
«I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.»
«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.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
afterwards, Dark Days, dress, I wear, laboratories, laboratory, Let It Be, practical
«When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
precaution, precautions, radioactive, strongly, studies, substances
«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.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
career, especially, family life, frequently, questioned, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling, scientific
«After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
attributed, essentially, historical, historical sense, International, national, The International
«Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Humanity,
Needs
| Keywords:
captivate, captivated, captivates, captivating, disinterested, dreamers, enterprise, forgetting, general interest, practical, safeguard, Tha, The General
«There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
Establishing, hunt, hunt down, hurry, sadistic, scientists
«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.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
confronting, fairy, fairy tales, impress, laboratories, laboratory, natural phenomenon, phenomena, scientist, tales, technician, technicians
«I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.»
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