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

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.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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.

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.