Marie Curie-Skłodowská citáty

„Ať tě méně zajímají lidé a více nápady.“

„Nebojte se toho, co děláte, pokud je to správné.“

„Nikdy nevidím, co bylo vykonáno, vidím jen to, co je třeba vykonat.“

„Učenec v laboratoři není jen odborník, je to dítě, které hledí na vědu jako na pohádku. Vidí ve vědě krásu.“

„Ničeho se v životě nemusíme bát - jen to pochopit!“

„Ničeho na světě se není třeba bát, je jen třeba všemu porozumět.“

„Ne ve výpočtech, ale v lásce se vědec nejčastěji mýlí.“

„Zamilovanost je většinou jen divadelní představení pro kolemjdoucí.“

„Nechci ji. Chci, abyste mne nechali o samotě.“

„Naučila jsem se, že cesta pokroku není rychlá ani snadná.“

„Věda se zajímá o věci, ne o lidi.“

„Musíme mít vytrvalost a především důvěru v sebe. Musíme věřit, že jsme na něco nadaní.“

„Na světě nejsou věci, kterých bychom se měli bát. Jen je musíme pochopit.“

„Chci ti také říci, že už nemám ráda slunce ani květiny. Bolí mě, jakmile je spatřím, a je mi lépe za pochmurných dnů, jako byl ten den, kdy jsi umřel. K pěknym dnům necitím nenávist jen proto, ze je mé děti potřebuji...“

„Existují sadističtí vědci, kteří spěšně shánějí chyby namísto zjištění pravdy.“

„Člověk si nikdy nevšimne, co se stalo; lze vidět jen to, co zbývá udělat.“

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

„Nemám žádné jiné šaty kromě těch, které nosím každý den. Pokud budete natolik laskaví, že mi jedny dáte, tak ať jsou praktické a tmavé, abych si je později mohla vzít a jít do laboratoře.“

“You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.”

“Scientist believe in things, not in person”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.”

“We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.”

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

“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.”

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

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

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

“Certein 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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.”