“I sometimes think it would be better to drown children than to lock them up in present-day schools.”
Nobel prizewinner Marie Curie, according to recently discovered notes taken by one of her pupils in 1907, now published for the first time (Leçons de Marie Curie, EDP Sciences)
“If one person dies and a family is left mourning, that’s sad. But if the whole town goes at once, it’s OK.”
Pompei resident Maria Scoppa on why townspeople are turning down government offers to pay them to move away from the Mount Vesuvius volcano (International Herald Tribune, 26 August)
“What’s happened in Paris is awful, but as…
