Polonium Element Quotes & Sayings

When Hobbits first began to smoke is not known, all the legends and family histories take it for granted; for ages folk in the Shire smoked various herbs, some fouler, some sweeter. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There are two kinds of individuals on Planet Earth who do not have beards - women and youth. — Phil Robertson

Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible. — Miranda Lambert

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers. — Bruno Dumont

Misfortune is the best fortune.
Rejection by all is victory. — Valmiki

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, 'I do not understand,' it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat 'You do not understand.' And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding. — G.K. Chesterton

Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very striking fact: when an aluminium foil is irradiated on a polonium preparation [alpha ray emitter], the emission of positrons does not cease immediately when the active preparation is removed: the foil remains radioactive and the emission of radiation decays exponentially as for an ordinary radio-element. We observed the same phenomenon with boron and magnesium. — Frederic Joliot-Curie

Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. — Gautama Buddha

Yeah, I understood that last night at the wreck. Nothing says I love you like a dead body. — Jennifer Echols

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. — Scott Westerfeld