Marie Curie Quotes

We must not forget that 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. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.

I'm very interested in science.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

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

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

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.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

Unprecedented opportunities for new scientific experience ...

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

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

I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian.