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Chapter 59 My Faith
[France] Marie Curie
A scientist engaged in research is not only a technician, but also a child, in the scenery of nature, it seems to be fascinated by fairy tales.

Life is not easy for any man or woman, we must have perseverance, the most important thing is to have confidence in ourselves.We have to believe that we are all gifted at everything and, at any cost, get it done.When things are over, you need to be able to say with a clear conscience, "I did my best."

One spring, when I was sick and forced to rest at home for several weeks, I was interested in watching the cocoons on the silkworms raised by my daughters.Looking at these silkworms working tenaciously and diligently, I feel that I am very similar to them. Like them, I always patiently focus on one goal.The reason why I am like this may be because there is a certain force that spurs me-just as the silkworm is spurred to form its cocoon.

In the past 50 years, I have devoted myself to scientific research, and research is basically an exploration of truth.I have many good and happy memories.During my teenage years at the Sorbonne, I lived my school years in solitude; all that time my husband and I sat absorbed, as if in a dream, toil in the humble study, where we were afterwards Radium was discovered.

In my life, I always pursue a quiet job and a simple family life.In order to realize this ideal, I will try my best to maintain a peaceful environment so as not to be intruded by personnel and exaggerated by reputation.

I am convinced that in science we are interested in things rather than people.When Pierre Curie and I were deciding whether we should benefit financially from our discovery, we both thought it was against our pure conception of research.Therefore, we did not apply for a patent on radium, and we abandoned a fortune.I firmly believe we are right.True, humanity needs reality-seekers who get paid a lot for what they do.However, human beings also need dreamers-they are strongly attracted to the progress of a selfless cause, so that they have no leisure and no enthusiasm to seek material benefits.My only expectation is to work as a free scholar in a free country, an entitlement I have never taken for granted because I lived in occupied and ruined Poland until I was 24 years old.I have weighed the cost of French liberty.

I wasn't born to be a mild-tempered person.I learned early on that many people who are as sensitive as I are are overly annoyed by even the slightest reprimand.They try to hide their sensitivity as much as possible.I have benefited greatly from my husband's gentle and quiet disposition.After his sudden and long death, I learned to live with it.As I get older, I appreciate the little things in life more and more, such as planting flowers, trees, and buildings. I also have a little interest in reciting poems and looking at the stars.

I have always been intoxicated by the beauty of the world.The science I love keeps adding new vistas to it.I believe that science itself has great beauty.

A scientist engaged in research is not only a technician, but also a child, in the scenery of nature, it seems to be fascinated by fairy tales.This charm is the main factor that enables me to work in the laboratory all my life.

Heart mark notes
Hegel said that a truly beautiful mind always does something and is a real person.The beauty of Madame Curie lies not only in her appearance, but also in her heart and personality.She lives lightly, thinks quietly, and persists in making progress until she enters the high ground of wisdom, and never gives up progress.Her unyielding belief, along with the beautiful light blue fluorescence of radium, blended into her beautiful life.

Einstein commented on Mrs. Curie in this way: "The significance of first-rate figures to the era and the process of history may be greater in terms of their moral qualities than in their pure intellectual achievements." He has given us a lot of inspiration in how to behave in the world.

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