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51 Chemist Quotes

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Am Among Beauty Great
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

About Curious Ideas Less
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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Am Discoveries Draw Evil
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In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Interested Must Persons Science
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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Easy Neither Nor Progress
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After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

After Attributed Been Essentially
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Also Child Confronting Fairy
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Afterwards Be Kind Dark Day
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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.

Almost Always Class Compelled
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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.

Aid Being Better Better World
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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.

Aid Alone Any Calm
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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.

Admirer Day Evening First
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My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.

Atomic Compounds Conditions Determined
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During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.

Also Compounds Course Examine
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Fear Feared Less Life
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The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
Biological Experiments First France
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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.

Awarded Degree Discovery Doctor
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In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts.

Chemical Differs Elements Less
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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

Adventure Allow Also Any
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If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.

Adventure Anthony Around Curiosity
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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.

Considered Direct Discovered Hospitals
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

AllMyLife Child Life Like
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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.

Above Any Attained Believe
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Been Done Has-Been Never
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Down Errors Establishing Hunt
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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.

Been Career Could Easy
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Air Facts Fly Never
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Curiosity Greatest Happiness Life
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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Cancer Duties Everyone Fraud
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Best Best Way Good Good Idea
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The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Away Bad Bad Ones Get
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I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

Believe Complicated Explained I Believe
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Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Bias Dogma Effort Involves
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I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

About Ahead Convinced Doctor
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Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

Agreements Continue Good Keep
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I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.

Amount Believe Day Every
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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

Age Believe Even Extend
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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

Any Close Compels Conclusion
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Goal Led Lies Me
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Because Belongs Carries Country
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Applications Applied Only Science
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Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Favors Fortune Mind Prepared
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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Applications Applied Bears Bound
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Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Barren Skepticism Tainted Yourself
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.

Am Consequences Direct I Am
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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Difficulties Surmounting Heroes Makes
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Approach Become Child He
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Because Belongs Country Humanity
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Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Because Carries First Furthest
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One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

Could Done Must Work
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