Accounts Quote by Marie Curie

The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom, the first-born of science.

— Thomas Jefferson

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

— Paul Nurse

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as…

— Woodrow Wilson

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature…

— Linus Pauling

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use…

— Polykarp Kusch

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist.…

— Stephen LaBerge

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

— Peter Hammill

I was fascinated by the world. I thought, "I just want to be a part of this world."

— Richard Dormer

I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

— Ellen Klages

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

— Shirley Brice Heath

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley