THE RADIUM WATER WORKED FINE UNTILE HIS JAW CAME OFF.

“Isotopes of radium, the first nuclear radiation sources to be commercially exploited, are probably the worst examples out of thousands of radioactive isotopes.”

— James Mahaffey

When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is…

— Marie Curie

The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.

— Marie Curie

“It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits…

— Pierre Curie

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would…

— Marie Curie

“The cynical would say there was only one reason a high-profile specialist finally took up the cause. On June 7, 1925, the first male…

— Kate Moore

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Marie Curie

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

— Alexis Carrel

Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively…

— Marie Curie

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

— Ambrose Bierce

Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.

— Erland Josephson

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

— Marie Curie

“Yet the flip side of the coin was all the positive literature about radium. As early as 1914, specialists knew that radium could deposit…

— Kate Moore

The various reasons we have just enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which we propose…

— Marie Curie