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Marie Curie

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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Sukses

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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Nasihat

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Nasihat

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Kurangilah rasa ingin tahu Anda tentang orang, perbanyaklah rasa ingin tahu tentang ide, gagasan, dan pemikiran.

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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.

Cinta

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I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Motivasi

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The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Kehidupan

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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing at whatever cost must be attained.

Kehidupan

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

Waktu

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When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.

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Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

Kehidupan

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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Kehidupan

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Kehidupan

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

Kehidupan

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

Kehidupan

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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.

Kehidupan

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The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.

Kehidupan

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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Kehidupan

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Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.

Kehidupan

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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.

Kehidupan