> Then I thought that there should be in the minerals some unknown element having a much greater radioactivity than uranium or thorium. And I wanted to find and to separate that element, and I settled to that work with Professor Curie. We thought it would be done in several weeks or months, but it was not so. It took many years of hard work to finish that task.

Sounds like every software project I've worked on!

Edit: I love also the .txt formatting, wish more books had this option https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61622/61622-0.txt