Marie Curie? Pierre Curie? Ève Curie? Marie Mattingly Meloney? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: Gossip about people is extraordinarily popular. A famous scientist once criticized this attitude as follows: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons. This statement has been attributed three members of a renowned French family: Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, …
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