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.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.