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

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

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

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.

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

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

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