Marie Curie idézet
Marie Curie
Születési dátum: 7. november 1867
Halál dátuma: 4. július 1934
Más nevek: Marie Curie-Sklodowská, Maria Curieová-Sklodowská
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie lengyel származású francia fizikus és kémikus, a radioaktivitás úttörő kutatója. Ő volt a párizsi Sorbonne első női professzora, azonkívül elsőnek kapott kétszer Nobel-díjat, a fizika, illetve a kémia területein végzett munkájáért. 1903-ban Henri Becquerellel és férjével, Pierre Curie-vel megosztva kapta meg a fizikai Nobel-díjat, majd 1911-ben egymaga a kémiai Nobel-díjat.
Idézetek Marie Curie
„I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.“
Instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in 'Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 137
„I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.“
As quoted in White Coat Tales : Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures (2007) by Robert B. Taylor, p. 141. The original Source is the last sentence of https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/pierre-curie-lecture.pdf
Misattributed
„I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.“
Letter to Eve Curie (July 1929), as quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 341
„There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.“
As quoted in The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007 (2006) by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, p. 44
„I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.“
Java Connector Architecture: Building Custom Connectors and Adapters (2002) by Atul Apte, p. 69
„One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.“
Letter to her brother (1894)
„Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But 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.“
As quoted in Astrophysics of the Diffuse Universe (2003) by Michael A. Dopita and Ralph S. Sutherland
Kontextus: Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But 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. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, 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.
„I am among those who think that science has great beauty.“
As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 341
Variant translation: A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Kontextus: I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. 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. If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
„Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.“
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
„Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.“
Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Változat: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
„Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.“
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
Kontextus: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
„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.“
'La vie n’est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. Il faut croire que l’on est doué pour quelque chose, et que, cette chose, il faut l'atteindre coûte que coûte.'
As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, Part 2, p. 116
„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.“
Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168
