Marie Curie

Celebrated scientist, Marie Curie was a force to be reckoned with. Her research on the dangerous elements Radium and Polonium included a great deal of exposure to radioactive material in her lab. To...
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YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF SCIENTIFIC MARVEL ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) SNEED PROOF? CONSIDER THIS PICTURE OF TEST TUBEFILLED WITH COLORFUL LIQUID. THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE IN THE 1950s...
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From catastrophic space explosions to drinking cups of disease-infested vomit, we count 9 science experiments that ended in disaster. 9 - NASA Challenger Explosion • Thirty years ago, the world...
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egg hunt is... great men and women of science. Every egg has the name of a scientist on it. Whoever finds the most scientists wins... a most egg-cellent prize! (Brain laughing) Gimme a break. I woke...
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Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against...

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I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.