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.

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

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

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

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

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

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.