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We Must Not Forget That When Radium Was Discovered No One Knew That It Would Prove Useful In Hospitals. The Work Was One Of Pure Science. And This Is A Proof That Scientific Work Must Not Be Considered From The Point Of View Of The Direct Usefulness Of It. It Must Be Done For Itself, For The Beauty Of Science, And Then There Is Always The Chance That A Scientific Discovery May Become Like The Radium A Benefit For Humanity.

I Believe International Work Is A Heavy Task, But That It Is Nevertheless Indispensable To Go Through An Apprenticeship In It, At The Cost Of Many Efforts And Also Of A Real Spirit Of Sacrifice: However Imperfect It May Be, The Work Of Geneva Has A Grandeur That Deserves Our Support.

It Was Like A New World Opened To Me, The World Of Science, Which I Was At Last Permitted To Know In All Liberty.

The Sensitive Plate, The Gas Which Is Ionised, The Fluorescent Screen, Are In Reality Receivers, Into Another Kind Of Energy, Chemical Energy, Ionic Energy... Luminous Energy.

This Means That We Have Here An Entirely Separate Kind Of Chemistry For Which The Current Tool We Use Is The Electrometer, Not The Balance, And Which We Might Well Call The Chemistry Of The Imponderable.