Marie Curie quotes
Yes, I'm a complete chemistry geek, I've read a biography on Marie Curie, Obessive Genius and I adore her even more than I first did ^.^ So I hope you will enjoy these as much as I did.
"When one of her teachers reprimanded her for her superior attitude saying, "I feel you look down on me," Manya, who was taller than her teacher, answered, with anger disguised as humor, "The fact is that I can't do anything else."
"All this appealed to Manya, who later wrote, "I still believe that the [positivist] ideas which inspired us then are the only way to real social progress. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals." Also, in the scientific career that was to follow, she believed with the positivists that all statements and conclusions should be "supported by evidence which can be checked."
Pierre Curie needed a calm attmosphere and could only concentration on one project at a time. At twenty-two he had written, "Women much more than men, love life for life's sake...and draw us away from dedication...It is women we have to struggle, and the struggle is nearly always an unequal one...Women of genius are rare."
"The student who had not known how to make soup now made gooseberry jelly and wrote down a formula including the ratio of the yield to the amount of material gathered." ~Referring to Marie Curie adapting to normal life.
"Marie's reaction was to start yet another journal, observing Irene's growth as if she too were a scientific project. She recorded Ir'ene's head size, the particulars of nursing, the baby's ability to grasp an object." (Irene is her frist child)
But, in fact, her greatest achievement was in employing an entirely new method to discover elements by measuring their radioactivity.
Friedrick Soddy said, "Pierre Curie's greatest discovery was Marie Sklodowska. Her greatest discovery was ... radioactivity."
"There can be no doubt about of the existence of these new elements but to make chemists admit their existence, it was necessary to isolate them."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it," Albert Einstein.
Pierre explained-"I believe that justice is not of this world, and that the strongest system or rather the one best developed from the economic point of view will be which will stand. A man may exhaust himself by work, and yet live, at best miserably. This is a revolting fact, but it will not, because of that, cease. It will disappear probably because man is kind of machine, and its economic advantage to make evert machine work in its normal manner, without forcing it."
Ernest Rutherford was less optomistic and noted with all the energy generated by radioactive change, "Some fool in a laboratory might blow up the universe unaware."
Soddy added, "Radium and radioactivity have transformed the earth into a stockhouse stuffed with explosives, inconceivably more powerful than any we know of."
"When one of her teachers reprimanded her for her superior attitude saying, "I feel you look down on me," Manya, who was taller than her teacher, answered, with anger disguised as humor, "The fact is that I can't do anything else."
"All this appealed to Manya, who later wrote, "I still believe that the [positivist] ideas which inspired us then are the only way to real social progress. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals." Also, in the scientific career that was to follow, she believed with the positivists that all statements and conclusions should be "supported by evidence which can be checked."
Pierre Curie needed a calm attmosphere and could only concentration on one project at a time. At twenty-two he had written, "Women much more than men, love life for life's sake...and draw us away from dedication...It is women we have to struggle, and the struggle is nearly always an unequal one...Women of genius are rare."
"The student who had not known how to make soup now made gooseberry jelly and wrote down a formula including the ratio of the yield to the amount of material gathered." ~Referring to Marie Curie adapting to normal life.
"Marie's reaction was to start yet another journal, observing Irene's growth as if she too were a scientific project. She recorded Ir'ene's head size, the particulars of nursing, the baby's ability to grasp an object." (Irene is her frist child)
But, in fact, her greatest achievement was in employing an entirely new method to discover elements by measuring their radioactivity.
Friedrick Soddy said, "Pierre Curie's greatest discovery was Marie Sklodowska. Her greatest discovery was ... radioactivity."
"There can be no doubt about of the existence of these new elements but to make chemists admit their existence, it was necessary to isolate them."
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it," Albert Einstein.
Pierre explained-"I believe that justice is not of this world, and that the strongest system or rather the one best developed from the economic point of view will be which will stand. A man may exhaust himself by work, and yet live, at best miserably. This is a revolting fact, but it will not, because of that, cease. It will disappear probably because man is kind of machine, and its economic advantage to make evert machine work in its normal manner, without forcing it."
Ernest Rutherford was less optomistic and noted with all the energy generated by radioactive change, "Some fool in a laboratory might blow up the universe unaware."
Soddy added, "Radium and radioactivity have transformed the earth into a stockhouse stuffed with explosives, inconceivably more powerful than any we know of."