Madame Curie Quotes

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.

Love's language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves.

Why did she [Madame Curie] seek to tame this mystery, which in the hands of others turned a multitude to ashes? Her work exploded with the violence of a thousand suns, but I must tell her that it was not her fault, the way they twisted her creation, tampered with her dreams. "I will tell her. "They said she was inhuman, heartless, but it is not so. She is here now. Weeping, she awaits me, She is carrying balm for our hands. [p, 56]

The white kids were going to have a chance to become Galileos and Madame Curies and Edisons and Ganguins, and our boys (the girls weren't even in on it) would try to be Jesse Owenses and Joe Louises.

All, right then." Henry raised his hand like a sorcerer. "Oh, Ling Chan, Madame Curie of the dream world," he intoned dramatically, barely keeping a straight face. "Sleep hath released thee! Now is the time thou must waketh!" Ling rolled her eyes. "You're an idiot.

Who have our fighters been?” Calvin asked. “Oh, you must know them, dear,” Mrs Whatsit said. Mrs Who’s spectacles shone out at them triumphantly, “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” “Jesus!” Charles Wallace said. “Why, of course, Jesus!” “Of course!” Mrs Whatsit said. “Go on, Charles, love. There were others. All your great artists. They’ve been lights for us to see by.” “Leonardo da Vinci?” Calvin suggested tentatively. “And Michelangelo?” “And Shakespeare,” Charles Wallace called out, “and Bach! And Pasteur and Madame Curie and Einstein!” Now Calvin’s voice rang with confidence. “And Schweitzer and Gandhi and Buddha and Beethoven and Rembrandt and St. Francis!

So how many women scientists do you know? Do not say Madame Curie.

We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie.

When Manya read, there was no waking her from her absorption; she heard nothing. A whole household might plan to tease and make a noise like all the zoos let loose with tin cans to play with and yet Manya wouldn't hear till her book was done. That was concentration and it was a joyful gift to have seized from the lucky-bag of life.

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.

an intellectual betrayed his mission if he was not the most constant defender of civilization and freedom of thought

For years, manufacturers of toothpaste and laxatives put radioactive thorium in their products, and at least until the late 1920s the Glen Springs Hotel in the Finger Lakes region of New York (and doubtless others as well) featured with pride the therapeutic effects of its “Radioactive mineral springs.” Radioactivity wasn’t banned in consumer products until 1938. By this time it was much too late for Madame Curie, who died of leukemia in 1934. Radiation, in fact, is so pernicious and long lasting that even now her papers from the 1890s—even her cookbooks—are too dangerous to handle.

comprendió el papel decisivo que podrían tener los rayos X si conseguía llevarlos al frente, porque permitirían calibrar las fracturas y encontrar y extraer la metralla minimizando la violencia quirúrgica. En un tiempo récord, Madame Curie convenció de su proyecto a las autoridades, se apropió de los aparatos de rayos X que había en las universidades o en las consultas de los médicos movilizados, consiguió que le cedieran suficientes vehículos de motor en los que instalar los equipos y creó las «unidades móviles», que enseguida empezaron a ser denominadas popularmente «las pequeñas Curie». Instruyeron a toda prisa técnicos y enfermeras que supieran manejar el material, y la misma Marie aprendió a conducir y estuvo llevando coches y haciendo radiografías junto a las trincheras. Pero quien más trabajó en el proyecto fue Irène, su hija, que al comienzo de la guerra tenía diecisiete años y que se pasó la contienda realizando una extenuante y maravillosa labor con «las pequeñas Curie». De hecho, probablemente fueron las tremendas dosis de radiación que recibió Irène en esa época lo que acabaría matándola de leucemia a los cincuenta y nueve años. En total, se hicieron más de un millón de exploraciones con rayos X: el plan fue un verdadero éxito. Un efecto secundario del ingenioso esfuerzo de Marie fue que Francia le perdonó el adulterio. Ya no era judía ni extranjera y volvía a ser amada y respetable.

In Bohr’s model of the atom, electrons could change their orbits (or, more precisely, their stable standing wave patterns) only by certain quantum leaps. De Broglie’s thesis helped explain this by conceiving of electrons not just as particles but also as waves. Those waves are strung out over the circular path around the nucleus. This works only if the circle accommodates a whole number—such as 2 or 3 or 4—of the particle’s wavelengths; it won’t neatly fit in the prescribed circle if there’s a fraction of a wavelength left over. De Broglie made three typed copies of his thesis and sent one to his adviser, Paul Langevin, who was Einstein’s friend (and Madame Curie’s). Langevin, somewhat baffled, asked for another copy to send along to Einstein, who praised the work effusively. It had, Einstein said, “lifted a corner of the great veil.” As de Broglie proudly noted, “This made Langevin accept my work.”47 Einstein made his own contribution when he received in June of that year a paper in English from a young physicist from India named Satyendra Nath Bose. It derived Planck’s blackbody radiation law by treating radiation as if it were a cloud of gas and then applying a statistical method of analyzing it. But there was a twist: Bose said that any two photons that had the same energy state were absolutely indistinguishable, in theory as well as fact, and should not be treated separately in the statistical calculations.

Once the list is developed, pick a dozen names from the list, which are a mix of both current and past celebrities. Then pose the problem and ask, “How would this situation be handled by…” • Donald Trump • Lady Gaga • Muhammad Ali • Bette Midler • Napoleon • Louis Armstrong • Gustave Eiffel • Renoir • Thomas Edison • Madam Curie • Hillary Clinton • Ronald Reagan • Big Bird • Donald Duck • Plato

Madame Curie was never really accepted as part of that field. Her success was seen as a matter of persistence and hard work,

Amantes Assemble Sonnet 9 The world doesn't need more avengers, but amantes. Hear me well, my brave amantes, it's time to assemble! More than Captain America we need Amelia Earhart, More than Madame Web we need Madame Curie-like rebel. Scrutinize all tradition with a fresh set of eyes, Rebel against dogma, and stand up to discrimination. Beliefs and doctrines surely have their place, But none of it is above scrutiny of the new generation. Each generation is to write their new set of laws, Learning from the triumphs and downfalls of yesterday. You just remember, that all roads lead to people, And life that doesn't lift people is life gone astray. Ayudar a la gente es la salvación de la mente. Elevación de la gente es la elevación de la mente.

Madame Curie said, ‘We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Madame Curie se concentró en el estudio de la medición de las sustancias radiactivas, creó un servicio de autenticación de esas medidas y definió el patrón internacional del radio, algo esencial tanto para la industria como para las aplicaciones médicas.

«Lord Kelvin [importante físico y matemático británico] hizo a los ochenta y dos años algo que dudamos que hubiera hecho de haber sido ella un científico varón: escribió una carta a The Times afirmando que el radio de Madame Curie no era un elemento sino un compuesto de helio.» ¡Y encima no mandó su opinión crítica a una revista científica, como hubiera sido lo correcto, sino que la aireó en un periódico general, en el diario más importante del país! Qué manera de desdeñar a Marie; y de intentar rebajarla públicamente.

Nothing to be worried, it is to be understood

Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screwup, what went wrong this time?” The creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” And then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. Indeed, the whole history of discovery is filled with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions which were right for the wrong reasons. Thomas Edison knew 1,800 ways not to build a light bulb. Freud had several big failures before he developed psychoanalysis. One of Madame Curie’s failures was radium.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? we must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and this thing must be attained. - Marie Curie

One of the most melancholy results of political constraint is the spontaneous ferocity it develops among the oppressed.

Mama, what kept you moving forward through droughts, wild animals, loneliness? We had no choice. Sadness was as dangerous as panthers and bears. The wilderness needs your whole attention.

Noi non possiamo sperare di costruire un mondo migliore senza migliorare gli individui. Con questo scopo, ciascuno di noi deve lavorare al proprio perfezionamento, pur accettando la propria parte nella vita generale dell'Umanità; poiché il nostro dovere particolare è di aiutare quelli ai quali possiamo essere più utili

On the walls hung black-and-white portraits of men—it was only in the physics department that you could find the single female face in the whole school, Madame Maria Skłodowska Curie’s, the sole indication of the equality of the sexes. These

We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. Toward this end, each of us must work toward his own highest development, accepting at the same time his share of responsibility in the general life of humanity—our particular duty being to help those to whom we feel we can be most useful.

She discovered, mixed in with the familiar clothing, pointed copes of velvet and silk, the emblems of new doctorates honoris causa; leather