In Science We Must Be Interested In

Sometimes My Courage Fails Me And I Think I Ought To Stop Working, Live In The Country And Devote Myself To Gardening. But I Am Held By A Thousand Bonds, And I Don't Know When I Shall Be Able To Arrange Things Otherwise. Nor Do I Know Whether, Even By Writing Scientific Books, I Could Live Without The Laboratory.

A Scientist In His Laboratory Is Not A Mere Technician: He Is Also A Child Confronting Natural Phenomena That Impress Him As Though They Were Fairy Tales.

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.

When One Studies Strongly Radioactive Substances Special Precautions Must Be Taken If One Wishes To Be Able To Take Delicate Measurements. The Various Objects Used In A Chemical Laboratory And Those Used In A Chemical Laboratory, And Those Which Serve For Experiments In Physics, Become Radioactive In A Short Time And Act Upon Photographic Plates Through Black Paper. Dust, The Air Of The Room, And One's Clothes All Become Radioactive.