Marie Curie Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Researchers probably never anticipated when they started smashing atoms and protons in our large accelerators that their science their very basic research on matter would eventually give us remarkable life-saving technology.

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it.

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

The deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them..

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 the only savior.

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

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

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

My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

One can not impede scientific progress.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Science is the engine that drives the economy and drives national defense.

We are a society now that is 100 percent dependent on science.

Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.

Innovation is the key to the future, but basic research is the key to future innovation.