"Life is not easy for any for us."
Read quote
19 likes
Quote collection
Marie Curie quotes (page 3 of 3)
52 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"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."
Read quote
19 likes
"When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive."
Read quote
18 likes
"Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people."
Read quote
18 likes
"Stability can only be attained by inactive matter."
Read quote
18 likes
"I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple."
Read quote
17 likes
"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."
Read quote
15 likes
"We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us."
Read quote
15 likes
"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."
Read quote
15 likes
"More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden."
Read quote
12 likes
"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."
Read quote
8 likes
"My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together."
Read quote
8 likes