Polonium The Quotes

#1. Scarily, cadmium is not even the worst poison among the elements. It sits above mercury, a neurotoxin. And to the right of mercury sit the most horrific mug shots on the periodic table - thallium, lead, and polonium - the nucleus of poisoner's corridor.

Sam Kean

#2. Value innovation requires companies to orient the whole system toward achieving a leap in value for both buyers and themselves.

W.Chan Kim

#3. There is no limit to the good you may do. If

Ellen G. White

#4. 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.

Marie Curie

#5. It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Ramana Maharshi

#6. We're a superstitious breed, we Irish, and wise enough to build around a faerie hill without disturbing it, to leave a stone dance where it stands. And to keep back from a place where the dark still thrums.

Nora Roberts

#7. Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City ...

Baha'u'llah

#8. No one ever explained the octopuses.

Gail Carriger

#9. I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

Thomas A. Edison

#10. Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.

Eve Curie

#11. I just talk, and I say what I feel, and yet, I'm a nice guy.

Joe Arpaio

#12. People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

Ty Segall

#13. That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.

Topher Grace

#14. Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!

Randy Pausch

#15. Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

Sam Kean