RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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.
But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
Gertrude Stein. . . the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.
Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.
India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
My dad was a janitor for U. S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
