simple living
In p>1895, when Madame Curie and Pierre Curie got married, there were only two chairs in the new house, just one for each of them. Pierre Curie felt that there were too few chairs, and suggested adding more so as to prevent the guests from having nowhere to sit. Madame Curie said, "It's good to have chairs, but the guests won't leave when they sit down. In order to have more time to do research, forget it. "
Since 1953, Madame Curie's annual salary has increased to 4, francs, but she is still "stingy". Every time she comes back from abroad, she always brings back some party menus, because these menus are very thick and good pieces of paper, so it is convenient to write on the back. No wonder some people say that Madame Curie was "like a poor woman in a hurry" until her death.
once, an American reporter visited Madame Curie. He went to the door of a fisherman's house in the village and asked a woman who was sitting barefoot on the slate at the door where Madame Curie lived. When the woman looked up, the reporter was surprised: it turned out that she was Madame Curie.
indifferent to fame and fortune
Madame Curie is famous all over the world, but she seeks neither fame nor profit. She won 1 bonuses, 16 medals and 117 honorary titles in her life, but she didn't care. One day, a friend of hers came to visit her home and suddenly saw her little daughter playing with the gold medal just awarded to her by the Royal Society, so she said in surprise, "Madame Curie, it is a great honor to get a medal from the Royal Society. How can you play for her children?" Madame Curie smiled and said, "I want children to know from an early age that honor is just like a toy, which can only be played, and you must never take it too seriously, otherwise you will accomplish nothing."
"Teach your daughter well"
Madame Curie has two daughters. Grasping the age advantage of intellectual development is an important "trick" for Madame Curie to develop children's intelligence. As early as when her daughter was less than one year old, Madame Curie guided her children to carry out intellectual gymnastics training for young children, guide them to get in touch with strangers extensively, go to the zoo to watch animals, and let them learn to swim and enjoy the beautiful scenery of nature. When the children are a little older, she teaches them to do an artistic intellectual gymnastics, and teaches them to sing children's songs and tell fairy tales. When they are older, let them have intellectual training, teach them to read, play the piano, make handicrafts and so on, and teach them to ride bicycles and horses.
After Madame Curie and her husband won the Nobel Prize, two generations trained by Madame Curie also won the Nobel Prize in succession: the eldest daughter, Ilena, a nuclear physicist, and her husband, Iorio, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering artificial radioactive substances. The second daughter, Eve, is a musician and biographer. Her husband won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1956 as the Director-General of UNICEF.
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