Marie Curie Quotes


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.


Citations

Curie, Eve. Madame Curie: A Biography. Translated by Vincent Sheean, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937, p. 341.

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Marie Curie
  • Born: November 7, 1867
  • Died: July 4, 1934
  • Nationality: Polish
  • Profession: Scientist

Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/ KEWR-ee; French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. As the first of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.