Marie Curie

"We must have faith in the possibility of creating a better world."

"The nuclear world is the real world; the rest is virtual."

"The only passion that guides my life is the love of science."

"It is a passion that burns, that consumes, that drives us to our purpose."

"A perhaps too courageous woman scientist."

"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career."

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."

"Crystallography is the science of crystal forms."

"The radium came later, after the polonium."

"I have no time for the perpetuation of old traditions."

"When you make a great discovery, you don't go running out into the street shouting about it."

"The discovery of radio-activity is a discovery of inestimable importance."

"I am the only person who remembers that I was not always so well known."

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

"Resting is part of the work, just as breathing is part of living."

"To be happy one must have courage."

"I'm afraid of nothing now."

"In life there is nothing to be feared, only things to be understood."

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

"The only way to be a great scientist is to be a great human being."

"Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw such violence of ambition into your work as God has given you."

"One of our contemporaries has said you can never be too rich or too blonde; I say you can never be too rich or too wise."

"The love of science is the dominant emotion of my life."

"I realize that inventions are not made by one man. It is a long process."

"The present day has not yet absorbed all of its past."

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

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

"I wanted to live my life and to achieve what I set out to do."

"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."