Quotations
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
We must act.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
One never notices what had been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
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 that, this thing must be attained.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
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.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
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 general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think, we can be most useful.