Madame Curie

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Fifty years ago

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Paris was a light-hearted city

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the goal of many a traveler

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but some came not
for gaiety but to work

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to study at one of the world's
most famous university

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the Sorban.

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To its lecture room and classes

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came students
from all over the world

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and among them was a young girl.

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She was poor. She was beautiful.

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She had left her
homeland and family

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and here in Paris, she was alone

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haunted by
dreams and invincibly eager

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To go out alone into space.
Go out alone.

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In one hundred years

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one hundred students
but when it is time

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for you to think

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you, too, will be alone

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like the author of this equation
like Newton

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let us say your Galileo.

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Probably will not be your
good fortune to reach the sky

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to catch the stars
in your fingertips.

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To catch a star
in your fingertips.

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But this you can share with them.

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You can learn to
be alone with nature

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with the ray of light
piece of earth

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drop of rain
you can become aware

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that the earth's swirling
about the sun

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at the rate of
66,000 miles per hour.

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Aware that the...

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What... what's that?

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You are feeling better? Sit.

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Sit still a moment. You fainted.

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I... I’m sorry I interrupted
the lecture so stupidly.

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You can get the notes
from some other students.

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Your name is Marie Scholoscka?

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Yes. You are working
in two master degrees.

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One in physics and one in mathematics.