Marie Skłodowska-Curie's most famous words
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: 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 that impress him like a fairy tale. · Radium should not enrich anyone. It belongs to all people.. (Updated Dec 14, 2025.)
From 'Radium should not enrich anyone' to the letter to her niece about silkworms and her diary after Pierre's death: Marie Skłodowska-Curie's words with their source, plus the ones most often attributed to her.
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Top 12
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
Lecture 'The Future of Culture', Madrid, 1933.
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A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena that impress him like a fairy tale.
Lecture in Madrid, 1933.
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Radium should not enrich anyone. It belongs to all people.
On the decision not to patent the process for isolating radium.
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I will not accept any pension. I am young enough to earn a living for myself and my children.
Refusing a state pension after Pierre Curie's death, 1906.
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We Poles have no right to abandon our homeland while it is oppressed.
Her answer to Pierre Curie's proposal, 1894.
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I want to tell you, too, that I have been named to your chair, and there were fools who congratulated me.
Diary addressed to the late Pierre, 14 May 1906.
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Let each of us, like a silkworm, spin our cocoon without asking for explanations of why or what for.
Letter to her niece Hanna Szalay, 6 January 1913.
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In science we should be interested in things, not in persons.
Quoted in the collection 'Myślę, więc jestem…'.
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My dearest wish is the creation of a Radium Institute in Warsaw.
On the Radium Institute, opened in Warsaw in 1932.
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Sad books can only be borne when one is young.
Quoted by her daughter Ève Curie in the biography 'Madame Curie'.
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Life goes on somehow… even if it goes badly.
Quoted by Ève Curie in the biography 'Madame Curie'.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Attributed: hugely popular, but with no reliable source in her writings.
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