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 Curie 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.
Polish-French Physicist, Chemist and Two-Times Nobel Prize Winner (1867 - 1934)
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- Aristotle
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“Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.”
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
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