Radium Quotes

27 quotes by 21 authors

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
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
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
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. — Thomas A. Edison
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
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
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. — Alexis Carrel
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
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
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
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
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
Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands. — Pierre Curie
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
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
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
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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

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