This quote is commonly attributed to Marie Curie, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“I have no dress except the one I wear. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one [a wedding dress], please let it be practical and dark, so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”
— Marie Curie Secondary source“But 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.”
— Marie Curie Primary source“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
— Marie Curie Secondary source“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, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
— Marie Curie Secondary source“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Disputed