"We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all."
"The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect."
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Source: Ève Curie (1937). “Madame Curie: a biography”
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