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Pierre Curie, with Autobiographical Notes, 1923
Warsaw, then Paris, a cold laboratory in a shed, and two Nobel prizes she did not much like talking about. One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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Kept by Substance · the quoted lines are theirs, the rest written after them · Pierre Curie, with Autobiographical Notes
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“There was, between his conceptions and mine, despite the difference between our native countries, a surprising kinship, no doubt attributable to a certain likeness in the moral atmosphere in which we were both raised by our families.”
When you seek truth with another soul, let the ground beneath your feet be the same honest earth that shaped your earliest years. Do not fear the distance between nations if the love…
“Humanity, surely, needs practical men who make the best of their work for the sake of their own interests, without forgetting the general interest.”