Marie Curie

1867–1934 · Physicist and chemist; two-time Nobel laureate

Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw in 1867, Marie Curie was a pioneer of research on radioactivity — a term she coined. She won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), shared with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911), becoming the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences. Famously indifferent to fame and money, she repeatedly steered public attention away from her person and toward her work — the very attitude this quote tries to capture.

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

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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”

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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood”

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