Marie Curie was a polish physicist and chemist. She was the first woman of her time to win a noble prize and made several discoveries in radioactivity. Here are some Marie Curie quotes that will inspire you to use your gifts and hardwork to get to your best life.

Inspiring Marie Curie Quotes

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” – Marie Curie

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” – Marie Curie

“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.” – Marie Curie

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” – Marie Curie

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” – Marie Curie

“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.” – Marie Curie

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“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.” – Marie Curie

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” – Marie Curie

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty.” – Marie Curie

“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.” – Marie Curie

“Scientist believe in things, not in person.” – Marie Curie

“You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.” – Marie Curie

“When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one’s clothes, all become radioactive.” – Marie Curie

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie

“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.” – Marie Curie

“It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.” – Marie Curie

“The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.” – Marie Curie

“This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.” – Marie Curie

“We must act.” – Marie Curie

“It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.” – Marie Curie

“We have no money, no laboratory and no help in the conduct of this important and difficult task. It was like creating something out of nothing.” – Marie Curie

“It is important to make a dream of life and of a dream reality.” – Marie Curie

“A great discovery does not issue from a scientists brain ready-made, like Minerva springing fully armed from Jupiter’s head; it is the fruit of an accumulation of preliminary work.” – Marie Curie

“You’ll never make me believe women were made to walk on stilts.” – Marie Curie

“There is nothing more wonderful than being a scientist, nowhere I would rather be than in my lab, staining up my clothes and getting paid to play.” – Marie Curie

“There is no connection between my scientific work and the facts of private life.” – Marie Curie

“Men of moral and intellectual distinction could scarcely agree to teach in schools where an alien attitude was forced upon them.” – Marie Curie

“Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it.” – Marie Curie

“One of our pleasures was to enter our workshop at night; then, all around us we would see the luminous silhouettes of the beakers and capsules that contained our products.” – Marie Curie