After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

— Marie Curie

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

— Marie Curie

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

— Marie Curie

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

— Marie Curie

Certain bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

— Marie Curie

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

— Marie Curie

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

— Marie Curie

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

— Marie Curie

I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.

— Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

— Marie Curie