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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 / Physicist
Admirer
Evening
First Time
Invited
One Day
Physicist
Polish
Spring
Time Great Together
Met
Pierre
Whom
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Discovery
Elements
Finished
Husband
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Thesis
Awarded
Doctor
Year
Degree
Obtained
Radioactive
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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.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Body
Fresh Start
Sparks
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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.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Science
Direct
Hospitals
Point Of View
Proof
Prove
Pure
Considered
Useful
Discovered
Point
Scientific
View
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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 / Physicist
Sympathy
Caught
Existence
Habit
Research
Scientific Research
Share
Simple
Sincere
Life Me Simple
Asked
Consecrated
Student
Entirely
Pierre
Scientific
Soon
Speaking
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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Alone
Calm
Care
Lonesome
Lost
Moral
Satisfaction
Usual
Unknown
Living
Aid
City
Depress
Feeling
Great City
Taking
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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.
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Beauty
Adventure
Machinery
Our World
Risk
Scientific Progress
Allow
Believed
Disappearing
Mechanisms
Neither
Reduced
Runs
Scientific
Though
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I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Class
Compelled
Fatigue
Fifteen
Finished
Growth
Teach
Warsaw
Rest
Father Me Free
Held
Hoping
Rank
Returned
Schools
Studies
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In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Happy
Alone
Catastrophe
Giving
Giving Up
Husband
Laboratory
Left
Research
Shed
Time Work Me
Alone Time Work
Away
Bring
Came
Continue
Old
Definitely
Dreadful
Alone Work Time
Same Time
Took
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I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Knowledge
Science
Unique
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We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Believe
Country
Names
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.
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Work
Time
Responsibility
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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.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Work
Duty
Humanity
Improvement
Particular
Responsibility
Share
World
Most
Build
Being
Time Work Hope
Aid
Useful
General
Own
End
Better World
Those
Same
Cannot
Without
Each
Work Hope Time
Must
His
Individuals
Same Time
Whom
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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.
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Believe
Real
Sacrifice
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I 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.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Accidents
Chemistry
Despair
Experiments
Inexperience
Physics
Unexpected
Various
Deepest
Encouraged
Times
Failures
Resulting
Tried
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Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Boiling
Broken
Contrary
Delicate
Effort
Fatigue
Heavy
Iron
Mass
Mixing
Work Myself Day
Nearly
Concentrate
Spend
Large
Minute
On The Contrary
Rod
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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.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Admirable
Companion
Concise
Evident
Form
Habit
Letters
Sincerity
Written
Desired
Pierre
Seem
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Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.
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Book
Country
Writing
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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.
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Men
Dreamer
Humanity
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All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.
Marie Curie / Physicist
Science
Despite
Difficult
Following
Physical Science
Poland
Preparation
Acquiring
Beginning
Centered
Complete
French
Course
Efforts
Fact
Follow
In Fact
Physical
Studies
Succeeded
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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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Science
Children
Thinking
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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.
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Science
Discovery
Views
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When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used in a chemical laboratory and those used in a chemical laboratory, and those which serve for experiments in physics, become radioactive in a short time and act upon photographic plates through black paper. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes all become radioactive.
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Science
Clothes
Taken
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Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge."
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Annoyed
Evil
Glasses
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