I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

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

We believe the substance we have extracted from pitchblende contains a metal not yet observed, related to bismuth by its analytical properties. If the existence of this new metal is confirmed we propose to call it polonium, from the name of the original country of one of us.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

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.