"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."
— Marie Curie
Nothing In Life Is To Be
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.
About this quote
This saying is widely attributed to Marie Curie, but its textual history is layered. The first part — "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood" — appears in a 1951 French medical journal (Laval médical) attributed to Curie in the context of her cancer diagnosis. The second sentence — "Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less" — may have been added by Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg in a 1967 article commemorating the centenary of her birth, and the combined quote was popularized by Melvin Benarde's Our Precarious Habitat (1973).
Source
Attributed, widely quoted from public lectures
