Active Quote by 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

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

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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

— Marie Curie

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains…

— Virginia Woolf

“Further analysis of the Sun’s spectrum revealed the signature of an element that had no known counterpart on Earth. Being of the Sun, the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“radioactive Rubidium-87, containing 37 protons (and 50 neutrons), can change or decay to strontium, which has 38 protons. These two elements can be thought…

— Bill Nye

The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas.…

— Aleister Crowley

“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

“Physicists had only recently discovered radioactivity,”

— Jerome Pohlen