Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.

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.

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

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

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

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