Benefits Quote by 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.

— Marie Curie

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for…

— Marie Curie

“It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits…

— Pierre 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

“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

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

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

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to…

— Anonymous

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

— Irving Langmuir

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

— John A. McDougall