Discovered Radium Quotes

#1. Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

Sam Kean

#2. The greatest blessing is the gift of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

Viviane Reding

#4. Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

Dejan Stojanovic

#5. If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

Jake Epstein

#6. It was as if every day a piece of my heart was plucked out by birds and carried away little by little.

Bart Baker

#7. For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Susan Abulhawa

#8. Truly good people are not aware of their goodness, And are therefore good.

Lao-Tzu

#9. He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

Otto Neurath

#10. Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

Stefan Molyneux

#11. When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.

Marie Curie

#12. A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Samuel Johnson

#13. I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

Alan Menken

#14. I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

Allyson Felix

#15. What's up wit these new niggas? And why they think it all come so easy?

Drake

#16. The fundamentalists were equally stymied. "We were worried about Adam and Steve," a Baptist minister said. "Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?

Charlaine Harris

#17. Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in.

Jim Wallis