I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Scientists believe in things, not in persons.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.
I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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 the name of radium.
Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.
I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple.
Life is not easy for any of us.
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.
My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.
It’s always good to marry your best friend.
More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one’s clothes, all become radioactive.
Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.