On the 25th Anniversary of the Discovery of Radium [Excerpt]

Even now, after 25 years of intensive research, we feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have made many discoveries. Pierre Curie, with his suggestions we have found in his notes, and the thoughts he had expressed to me, has helped to guide us to there. But no one of us can do much, if each of us perhaps, can catch some gleam of knowledge, which is modest and insufficient of itself, may add to man's dream of truth. It is by these small candles in our darkness that we see before us, little by little, the dim outlines of that great plan that shapes the universe. And I am among those people who think that for this reason, science has great beauty, and with its great spiritual strength, will in time, clean this world of its evils, its ignorance, its poverty, diseases, wars and heartaches. Look for the clear light of truth, look for unknown new roads. Even when man sights, his keener far than now divine wonder, had never failures.

Every age had its own dreams. Leave then the dreams of yesterday. You take the torch of knowledge, and build the palace of the future.

-- On the 25th Anniversary of the Discovery of Radium

Marie Curie

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