Nothing In This World Is To Be

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.

I Was Taught The Method For Advancement Is Not Quick Or Simple.

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.

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.

Humanity Needs Practical Men, Who Get The Most Out Of Their Work, And, Without Forgetting The General Good, Safeguard Their Own Interests. But Humanity Also Needs Dreamers, For Whom The Disinterested Development Of An Enterprise Is So Captivating That It Becomes Impossible For Them To Devote Their Care To Their Own Material Profit.