Madame Curie Quotes

• When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was condemned by the Church; Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us gets enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Pain, Sleep, Night

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.

  Frank Crowninshield

  Reading, Discovery, Names

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• Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Years, Found

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• It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Innovation, Needs

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• Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.

  Mina Loy

  Gertrude, Research, Matter

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• In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Two, Years

  "English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.

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• When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut like Sally Ride, or a zoologist like Jane Goodall. Instead, they look to someone like Madonna.

  W. Ann Reynolds

  Girl, Science, Zoologist

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• 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

  Husband, Science, History

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “Asimov on physics”, Doubleday Books

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• The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

  Christine Quinn

  Perro, Reyes, Escuela

  "Deja un cubierto para Ann". Entrevista con Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. 9 de mayo de 2013.

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• Cuando tenía 12 años, leía misterios de Nancy Drew y biografías de Madame Curie y Florence Nightingale y libros sobre chicas que aman los caballos o van a la escuela de enfermería. Pertenecía a las Girl Scouts, sacaba sobresalientes en el colegio y rara vez desobedecía a mis padres. Seguía teniendo una colección de muñecas Barbie en mi habitación y casi nunca hablaba con chicos.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girl, Horse, Book

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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