"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."
"I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support."
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Source: Marie Curie's letter to Eve Curie Labouisse (July 1929), as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse Madame Curie: A Biography translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 341), 1937.
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