I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.” — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims. — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
“Isotopes of radium, the first nuclear radiation sources to be commercially exploited, are probably the worst examples out of thousands of radioactive… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“Little Willie, full of glee, Put radium in grandma's tea. Now he thinks it quite a lark To see her shining in… — Harry Graham Copy Share Image
The various reasons we have just enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an… — Eve Curie Copy Share Image
Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself.… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies… — Ostwald Wilhelm Copy Share Image
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether… — Pierre Curie Copy Share Image
Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“The painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing… — Deborah Blum Copy Share Image
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“Yet the flip side of the coin was all the positive literature about radium. As early as 1914, specialists knew that radium… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
“The cynical would say there was only one reason a high-profile specialist finally took up the cause. On June 7, 1925, the… — Kate Moore Copy Share Image
![“Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.” quote by William Crookes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/285/william-crookes-34055_arms_probably-if-half-a-kilogram-of-radium-we_1915688.jpg)
