Quote by Marie Curie: “I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be in science, you have to be poor.”

This quote highlights the sacrifices often required for a life dedicated to scientific pursuit. Curie suggests that intellectual passion sometimes demands foregoing material comforts, embracing a simpler lifestyle focused on discovery rather than accumulating wealth or status.

This remark, recounted in her daughter's biography, reflects the reality of scientific research funding and the personal sacrifices, particularly for women, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Polish-French physicist and chemist who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to have won it in two different sciences — physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. Her discovery of polonium and radium transformed the understanding of radioactivity.