A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.

We have no money, no laboratory, and no help in the conduct of this important and difficult task. It was like creating something out of nothing.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.

I came out of independent film, that’s my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.