In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
“Why did she [Madame Curie] seek to tame this mystery, which in the hands of others turned a multitude to ashes? Her… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“Madame Curie was never really accepted as part of that field. Her success was seen as a matter of persistence and hard… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
