It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

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

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

Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But 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.

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

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