Marie Curie

"The study of science has revealed the interconnectedness of all things."

"I have learned that faith and reason are not opposites but partners."

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

"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."

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

"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."

"The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment is not the only reality."

"Life for me has been exactly what I expected it to be - a succession of challenges that I have tried to meet."

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be afraid of everything new in the way of dress and cant bear to wear it, well, goodbye to you."

"I think I have very good reasons to be satisfied with my past. It does not seem to me that the position of Poland has ever been a motive to demand or to beg for anything."

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

"Radium has something to do with the extraordinary fact that the atom is not indivisible."

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals."

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

"If you wish your children to think deep thoughts and to have aspirations beyond the normal run of mankind, it is well that they should know about the lives of great men who have struggled against every odds."

"The polonium that I discovered was no strange element, but the discovery of a new world."

"Life is too short to spend it doing things for other people's approval."

"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"I was trained in the laboratory to see what was possible."

"The scientist belongs to humanity, and science belongs to the world."

"You cannot live only for yourself in this world."

"When you see the accomplishments of a man, you realize there's nothing impossible to those who have conviction."

"In science, there are no shortcuts to truth."

"The day may come when gold has lost its value, but radium will always be precious."

"A chemist should be a scientist, not merely a laboratory servant."

"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."

"I was often sad, often alone, but I had my science."

"One of our joys was to leave our home on Saturday evening and pedal into the country."