Marie Curie Quotes

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.

A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

Scientific Progress goes boink?

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.