French physicist and chemist, Birth: 12-9-1897, Death: 17-3-1956
1.
That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.
Irene Joliot-Curie
2.
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.