The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.

This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance, and which we might well call the chemistry of the imponderable.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.