It Was Like A New World Opened

Life Is Not Easy For Any Of Us. But What Of That? We Must Have Perseverance And Above All Confidence In Ourselves. We Must Believe That We Are Gifted For Something, And That This Thing, At Whatever Cost, Must Be Attained.

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.

We Must Not Forget That When Radium Was Discovered No One Knew That It Would Prove Useful In Hospitals. The Work Was One Of Pure Science. And This Is A Proof That Scientific Work Must Not Be Considered From The Point Of View Of The Direct Usefulness Of It. It Must Be Done For Itself, For The Beauty Of Science, And Then There Is Always The Chance That A Scientific Discovery May Become Like The Radium A Benefit For Humanity.

My Husband And I Were So Closely United By Our Affection And Our Common Work That We Passed Nearly All Of Our Time Together.

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