Quotes About Sklodowska

#1. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. From a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago, when I had been dusting the portraits in the library. In fact, as I recall, I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby

Anonymous

#3. We need to learn to tell the story that makes sense of Jesus. Not a story that we ask Jesus to fit into.

Scot McKnight

#4. Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

Bernard Haisch

#5. I don't know how [books] accumulate like that. They're part rabbit, I think.

Beatriz Williams

#6. To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.

Eddie Rickenbacker