"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity."
— Marie Curie
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity.
About this quote
Ève Curie recorded this reflection in her biography Madame Curie (1937). Marie Curie expressed this conviction in lectures and essays throughout her public life, arguing that science was not merely a technical enterprise but a moral one — inseparable from questions of social responsibility and human solidarity. She put the principle into practice by refusing to patent the radium isolation process, making it freely available to scientists worldwide.
Source
Quoted in Madame Curie by Eve Curie, 1937
