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. One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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.
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska (1867-1934), was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867 , the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father.
In 1903, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Henri Becguerel the Nobel Prize in Physics, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."
Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. Eight years later, she received the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
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