“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

— Marie Curie

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Title: Wikiquote: Marie Curie
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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

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Curie, Marie. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Marie Curie. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

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