Marie Curie Quotations

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

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

More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

It's always good to marry your best friend.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.