Curie Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us…
— Irene Joliot-Curie
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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
— Albert Einstein
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Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who…
— Isaac Asimov
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Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an…
— B. C. Forbes
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Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you…
— Brad Meltzer
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In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy…
— Sean O'Casey
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When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut…
— W. Ann Reynolds
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In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the…
— Anthony Burgess
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When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love…
— Joyce Maynard
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The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story…
— Christine Quinn
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And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps…
— Jenny Downham
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Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of…
— Kamila Shamsie
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Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do…
— Alan Alda
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We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is…
— Frank Crowninshield
Who Wrote These Curie Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Curie Quotes as follows: