Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie CurieRead
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects a sense of newfound freedom and discovery in the realm of science.
Marie Curie's quote expresses the profound joy and liberation that comes with gaining access to knowledge, particularly in science. It highlights the importance of education and the thrill of exploration that science can bring, emphasizing how understanding the natural world can transform oneβs perspective and experience of life.
Themes
ScienceKnowledgeDiscoveryFreedomEducation
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can inspire students in a science class to appreciate the beauty of learning.
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All quotes βI 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.
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.
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The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.
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During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
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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.
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