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

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 have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

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

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

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

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.