We Must Have Perseverance And

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.

More And More, I Feel The Need For A House And A Garden.

All My Life Through, The New Sights Of Nature Made Me Rejoice Like A Child.

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.

I Am Among Those Who Think That Science Has Great Beauty. A Scientist In His Laboratory Is Not Only A Technician: He Is Also A Child Placed Before Natural Phenomena Which Impress Him Like A Fairy Tale. We Should Not Allow It To Be Believed That All Scientific Progress Can Be Reduced To Mechanisms, Machines, Gearings, Even Though Such Machinery Has Its Own Beauty.