Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
MC
Marie CurieReply to a reporter, quoted in Eve Curie, Madame Curie (1937)
About Marie Curie
Physicist and chemist who pioneered radioactivity research and won two Nobel Prizes. (1867-1934)
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- One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.Letter to her brother (1894)
- Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.Quoted in Eve Curie, Madame Curie (1937)
- All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.Pierre Curie (1923), translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg
- Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Widely attributed; no primary source located
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- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Isaac Newton
- I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.Isaac Newton
- To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore... whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton
- We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.Thomas Edison
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman
- What I cannot create, I do not understand.Richard Feynman
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