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Marie Curie

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Overview

Marie Curie is a registered charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which provides hospice care and support for anyone with an illness they’re likely to die from, and those close to them, and campaigns for better support for dying people. It was established in 1948, the same year as the National Health Service (NHS). In the financial year 2021/22, the charity supported 66,024 people through its nursing services, hospices and support line calls. It runs nine hospices in Belfast, Bradford, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hampstead, Liverpool, Newcastle, and the West Midlands. The charity's information and support service was used more than 1.2 million times. Marie Curie campaigns on issues affecting people with any illness they're likely to die from, their families and carers, and it's the largest charitable UK funder of palliative and end of life care research. History Marie Curie was founded in 1948.

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Notable quotes

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
— Letter to her brother (1894)
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
— Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science‎ (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
— Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
— Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
— Java Connector Architecture: Building Custom Connectors and Adapters‎ (2002) by Atul Apte, p. 69
“In life, there's nothing to be feared, everything is to be understood.”
— As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (2006) by Melvin A. Benarde

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Marie Curie: Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934) · 2018 South Korean musical

Notable quotes

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
— Letter to her brother (1894)
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
— Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science‎ (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
— Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
— Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
— Java Connector Architecture: Building Custom Connectors and Adapters‎ (2002) by Atul Apte, p. 69
“In life, there's nothing to be feared, everything is to be understood.”
— As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (2006) by Melvin A. Benarde

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Marie Curie is a registered charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which provides hospice care and support for anyone with an illness they’re likely to die from, and those close to them, and campaigns for better support for dying people. It was established in 1948, the same year as the National Health Service (NHS). In the financial year 2021/22, the charity supported 66,024 people through its nursing services, hospices and support line calls. It runs nine hospices in Belfast, Bradford, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hampstead, Liverpool, Newcastle, and the West Midlands. The charity's information and support service was used more than 1.2 million times. Marie Curie campaigns on issues affecting people with any illness they're likely to die from, their families and carers, and it's the largest charitable UK funder of palliative and end of life care research. History Marie Curie was founded in 1948.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).