Pierre Curie Quotes

#1. Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one - Marie, the famous Madame Curie - and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

Isaac Asimov

#2. I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894 ... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Marie Curie

#3. Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.

Marie Curie

#4. Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

Sam Kean

#5. To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Peter Schuyler

#6. When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

Eric Ripert

#7. I didn't know what I thought, other than that nothing was easy anymore and no matter what I did, things got messed up.

Lauren Myracle

#8. I don't know whose brilliant idea that was, but it wasn't mine, that's for sure.

Ozzy Osbourne

#9. I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies ...

Ernest Rutherford

#10. Let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle.

Andrew Bonar

#11. Scapegoat, n.
I think our top two are:
1. Not enough coffee.
2. Too much coffee.

David Levithan

#12. Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Pierre Curie

#13. Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

Pierre Curie

#14. The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.

Larry Brown

#15. Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

Pierre Curie

#16. It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.

Pierre Curie

#17. You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.

Dolph Lundgren

#18. In chess there is a world of intellectual values,

Gerald Abrahams

#19. It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

Pierre Curie

#20. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.

Siddhartha Mukherjee