Best 3 quotes of Irene Joliot-curie on MyQuotes

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.

The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life—this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.