"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
— Marie Curie
One Never Notices What Has Been
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
About this quote
Marie Curie wrote this to her brother Józef on 18 March 1894, while working toward her licence in physics in Paris. The observation reflects her characteristic drive — the sense that every achievement immediately revealed new work yet to be done. This restlessness sustained her career from the discovery of polonium and radium in the 1890s through her continued research on radioactivity into the 1930s.
Source
Letter to her brother Jozef, March 18, 1894
