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“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

Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the…

— Mina Loy

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“The discovery of curium was part of the Manhattan Project, so it stayed secret until World War II ended. It was supposed to be…

— Sybrina Durant

In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“a dessert made out of a dozen matzohs, a gallon of cream and amaretto liqueur, and a tub of raspberries. What I believe my…

— Gary Shteyngart

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

Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to…

— Alan Alda

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

— N. Scott Momaday

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

“Neither does she have a name--none that I could find even in my most persistent researches: Julian's gentle lady, I mean; she whom I…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma…

— Sophie Barthes