"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."
— Marie Curie
I Am Among Those Who Think
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
About this quote
Marie Curie's daughter Ève Curie recorded this reflection in her biography Madame Curie (1937), drawing on her mother's letters and conversations. Marie Curie expressed this sentiment throughout her career in physics and chemistry, insisting that scientific work was not cold rationalism but a form of wonder and joy. She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes — in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911) — and the first woman to hold a professorship at the University of Paris.
Source
Quoted in Madame Curie by Eve Curie, 1937
