Madame Curie: a Biography by Eve Curie
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2001-04-01
- Publisher
- Da Capo Pr
- Retrieved
- Mar 18, 2012
- ISBN
- abHJGxj8ZR
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Improve Ourselves, but Also Contribute to the Improvement of Society
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Humanity certainly needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to…