I Am One Of Those Who Think

All My Life Through, The New Sights Of Nature Made Me Rejoice Like A Child.

We Believe The Substance We Have Extracted From Pitchblende Contains A Metal Not Yet Observed, Related To Bismuth By Its Analytical Properties. If The Existence Of This New Metal Is Confirmed We Propose To Call It Polonium, From The Name Of The Original Country Of One Of Us.

Radium Is Not To Enrich Any One. It Is An Element; It Is For All People.

Certein Bodies... Become Luminous When Heated. Their Luminosity Disappears After Some Time, But The Capacity Of Becoming Luminous Afresh Through Heat Is Restored To Them By The Action Of A Spark, And Also By The Action Of Radium.

In Science We Must Be Interested In Things, Not In Persons.