"Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity……" — Marie Curie
"Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium."
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Marie Curie
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44 Quotes by Marie Curie
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In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.
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First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
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