Marie Curie
A great scientist who won the Nobel Prize twice thinks he is so ordinary. If you want to know what qualities you need to be a real scientist, take a look at this short article-not only with your eyes, but also with your heart, with your heart to approach this great crystal heart!
Life is not easy for anyone, we must have perseverance. The most important thing is that we should have confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we have a natural talent for everything, and we must finish it at any cost. At the end, you should be able to say with a clear conscience, "I tried my best."
One spring, I was forced to rest at home for several weeks because of illness. I watched with interest the silkworms raised by my daughter cocoon. Looking at these silkworms' persistent and diligent work, I feel like them. Like them, I always patiently concentrate on one goal. I am so, perhaps because there is some force urging me-just like a silkworm being urged to cocoon.
For fifty years, I have devoted myself to scientific research, and research is the discussion of truth. I have many beautiful and happy memories. When I was a girl, I was at the University of Paris. As a student, I lived a lonely life. During the whole period when I devoted myself to science, my husband and I devoted ourselves as if in a dream, sitting in a simple study and studying hard, and then we found radium there.
I will always pursue a quiet job and a simple family life. In order to realize this ideal, I try to keep a quiet environment, not disturbed by personnel and not dragged down by fame.
I am convinced that in the field of science, we are interested in career rather than wealth. When Dampier Curie and I considered whether we should get economic benefits from our discoveries, we both thought that we should not go against our concept of pure research. So we didn't apply for a patent for radium, and we abandoned a fortune. I firmly believe that we are right. It is true that human beings need realistic people who get a lot of rewards in their work. However, human beings also need dreamers-they are strongly attracted by their careers and have neither leisure nor enthusiasm to seek material benefits. My only hope is to do research in a free country as a free scholar. I never take it for granted, because I lived in occupied and ravaged Poland until I was 24 years old. I have weighed the cost of freedom in France.
I was not born a gentle person. I've known for a long time,
I have been immersed in the beauty of the world, and the science I love is constantly increasing its brand-new prospects. I believe that science itself has great beauty. A scientist engaged in research work is both a technician and a child, as if fascinated by fairy tales and natural scenery. The charm of this science is the main reason why I can work hard in the laboratory all my life.