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" I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894… A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife. " - Marie Curie

" I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin. " - Andrew Bird

" I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician. " - Whitfield Diffie

" I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called ‘Come On Seabiscuit.’ I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years. " - Laura Hillenbrand

" I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked. " - Phoebe Waller-Bridge

" I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig through my work and see. " - Ramin Djawadi

" When I started university, I didn’t know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting. " - Ma Yansong

" In one sentence, I’d describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn’t end it with a period. I’d end it with three dots. " - Jason Schwartzman

" People who look for the first time through a microscope say, ‘Now I see this, and then I see that,’ and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, ‘Why take so much trouble,’ and, ‘What good is it?’ " - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

" The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions. " - Claude Levi-Strauss