yes im in my 20s but this is only my first week of being alive
- "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less".
- "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained".
- "I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries".
- "If I had not been taught chemical analysis by prof. Milicer and dr. Kossakowski in Warsaw, I would not have isolated radium".
- "I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale".
- "Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit".
- "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful".
- "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy".
— Maria Skłodowska Curie
La Mode illustrée, no. 23, 4 juin 1865, Paris. Toilettes de Mme Castel-Breant, 58bis. r. ste. Anne. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney
there is always some fucking laundry and dust and some other shit
i love you secondhand books i love you paperbacks i love you public libraries i love you school libraries i love you little free libraries i love you audiobooks i love you librivox i love you libby i love you ebooks i love you pdfs i love you internet archive i love you public domain i love you free and cheap and imperfect books i love you widely accessible resources
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.
its crazy that being in your early 20s so often feels like you're running out of time. we are at the beginning..................... what on earth
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes + reactions
Translation: A protester created a website that allows you, when you click/tap on the pan, to make noise as if you were really banging on one. The website was created to mock the ban of saucepans during protests.
La Mode nationale, no. 44, 3 novembre 1894, Paris. No. 13. — Toilette de visite. Bibliothèque nationale de France
Explication des gravures:
Source: gallica.bnf.fr
this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability
this difficulty will soon be proof of capability.
girls be like “im fighting demons” and the demon is a degree they chose for themselves
