For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these servants of an idea the necessary means of work? Have they an assured existence, sheltered from care? The example of Pierre Curiee, and of others, shows that they have none of these things; and that more often, before they can secure possible working conditions, they have to exhaust their youth and their powers in daily anxieties. Our society, in which reigns an eager desire for riches and luxury, does not understand the value of science. It does not realize that science is a most precious part of its moral patrimony. Nor does it take sufficient cognizance of the fact that science is at the base of all the progress that lightens the burden of life and lessens its suffering. Neither public powers nor private generosity actually accord to science and to scientists the support and the subsidies indispensable to fully effective work.
Marie CurieTags: science progress service nobel-laureate admirable curie pierre
I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.
Leo TolstoyTags: pierre
All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.
Leo TolstoyTags: russia war-and-peace leo-tolstoy pierre
One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
Pierre-Claude-Victor BoisteTags: confidence nothing lose victor pierre boiste
Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.
Pierre-Claude-Victor BoisteTags: life woman women honor victor pierre celestial pathway boiste terrestrial
The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.
Pierre-Claude-Victor BoisteTags: greatness god worship little great victor pierre boiste
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