Radium Quotes
27 quotes by 21 authors
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The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does…
— John Updike
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I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the…
— Thomas A. Edison
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The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical…
— Werner Heisenberg
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I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.
— Thomas A. Edison
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The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give…
— Marie Curie
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We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of the growth and decay of…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
— Alexis Carrel
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Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an…
— B. C. Forbes
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The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a…
— Eve Curie
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India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less…
— Ben Fountain
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It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy…
— Frederick Soddy
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Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.
— Pierre Curie
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Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a…
— Eve Curie
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Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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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…
— William Crookes
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RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-…
— John Muir
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
— Walter Dean Myers
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What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few…
— Jeanette Winterson
Who Wrote These Radium Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 27 Radium Quotes as follows: