I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
In plain words
Getting better at anything is slow and hard. That is normal.
Where these words come from
- 40% sureLots of sources credit Marie Curie with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Widely attributed to Curie's Autobiographical Notes; Wikiquote's own citation ('Java Connector Architecture', 2002) is a clear citation-bot mismatch, not a genuine source.
- Autobiographical Notes (appended to Pierre Curie)
- 1923 · Paris · Reflecting on her scientific career's slow progress
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