"These gleamings seemed suspended in the darkness and stirred us with ever-new emotion and enchantment."-Marie Curie, 1901- The Radium Girls (2).
“Humans have always needed and wanted to see in the dark.”- Kate Moore, second personal email interview.
"...the element was dubbed 'liquid sunshine,' and it lit up not just the hospitals and drawing rooms of America, but its theaters, music halls, grocery stores, and bookshelves." - 1917, The Radium Girls (6).
"Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people."-Marie Curie