“The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea”
Albert Einstein
“Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.”
Pierre Curie
“Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.”
Dan Brown
“Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.”
Emile M. Cioran
“We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.”
Herbert Spencer
“We are f acing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.”
Jerome Hines
“Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.”
Chanakya
