Activity Quote by Eve Curie

Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

— Pierre Curie

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

— Marie Curie

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

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

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…

— Marie 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…

— Eve Curie

“At my urgent request the Curie laboratory, in which radium was discovered a short time ago, was shown to me. The Curies themselves were…

— Ostwald Wilhelm

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Nothing is so contagious as example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.

— Marie Curie