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Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/; French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska]; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

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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.

Dark, Science, Giving, Let, Dress

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

Fear, Meaningful Life, Time, Understand, Understanding

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

Educational, Hope, Individual, Individuals, World

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Discovery, Good, Humanity, Science, Think, Thinking

I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

Dream, Husband, Heaven, Like

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

Expression, Knowledge, Raised, Science, Unique

We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.

Analytical, Believe, Country, Names, Pitchblende

This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.

Balance, Call, Current, Entirely, Mean, Science

The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

Believe, Discovery, Element, Enumerated, Reasons, Science

Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.

Book, Country, Fails, Gardening, Writing

When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used in a chemical laboratory and those used in a chemical laboratory, and those which serve for experiments in physics, become radioactive in a short time and act upon photographic plates through black paper. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes all become radioactive.

Clothes, Experiments, Room, Science, Taken, Various

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Hunting, Hurry, Science, Scientists, Truth

Scientist believe in things, not in person

Believe, Chemistry, Person, Scientist, Things

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.

Believe, Grandeur, Real, Sacrifice, Task, Work

When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.

Air, Clothes, Dust, Special, Taken

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

Science, Reality, Accounts, Persons, Things

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.

Dreamer, Dreamers, Enterprise, Humanity, Men, Profit

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Ambition, Desire, Determination, Make, Permanent

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

Change, Easy, Progress, Swift, Way

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.

Family, Careers, Easy, Frequently, Questioned

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