今日同維多利亞同學講電話
佢d意念有時真係好特別
果然唔係普通人
雖說我本人就甘於平凡(因為知道平凡某程度上是福)
畢竟聽下別人說一說一些不平凡的事
是我從小到大的娛樂
我今日一共問過五個人一條問題
"If you can choose to have a dinner with any three historical persons from any time and place,
who will you prefer?"
各人的答案都很有趣
而相較我自己在書店看到這條
Med/law/sciences grad program interview熱門題問時
我都幾興幸自己唔使想考住
呢d問題我一定答得好白痴
一定唔會被取錄
維多利亞只係用了一秒
就單出三個人名
其中只有第一位我係清楚其生平的
另外那兩個chemistry同quantum physics人
我唔係好知有幾偉大
我就出點力介紹一下我聽到的第一個名
亦就是我也很佩服的女科學家
Marie Curie-
Winner of two Nobel Prizes, for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911.
早在那幾年渾噩的中學生涯時
我已經有留意到此人
大家耳熟能詳的幅射
就是她發現的
(看到這各位應該大概知道我說的是誰吧)
Radioactivity is the starting point for cancer treatment, for the dating techniques used on ancient objects, rocks and the universe, and for molecular biology and modern genetics; it is also the source of nuclear energy and the atomic bomb.
當然功不可沒的還有她的另一半Pierre Curie
The year before they married, he had written to her saying how nice it would be "to spend life side by side, in the sway of our dreams: your patriotic dream, our humanitarian dream and our scientific dream."
他們也成功了
他們實現的是夢想
沒有引入金錢的破壞
沒有受到權力的限制
物資不富裕的生活換得兩個諾貝爾獎
周期表上polonium的radium
就是他們發現的
而且是跟他們意思起的名字
Einstein once said of her, "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted."
不過實現最為人振奮的夢想
代價是大到平凡人付不起的
那個年代作為女性
投身如此這般的事業已經需要極大勇氣
年輕求學時所受的白眼
沒有阻止她供其完妹妹學醫之後再在化學物理上拿兩個博士學位
之後可以組織家庭教育出兩名一樣出色的女兒
付出的堅苦卓絕恆心顯而易見
後人把菲林放在她的實驗室筆記的每一頁之間
可以沖印出的她亂亂但深刻的指印
她的手指所帶的幅射之厲害由此可見
她其中一個女兒Irene跟她雙親一樣死於leukaemia
很痛苦的一種因過份暴露於幅射之中所得血病
據了解
很多人都認為病痛之中最痛的就是血或骨的病
當我問維多利亞為何想見她
我得到的是一個很可愛的理由
"我想知道如果我同佢講佢會因為佢既工作而咁樣死法, 佢有乜野感想? 佢會唔會暫一暫停?"
好問題
我都好想睇佢既反應
不過如果我來答
我會想見佢老公Pierre Curie
見到Marie我一定興奮到只會顧住望實佢而乜都問唔到
我會問Pierre同一個問題
加:
你會唔會隱瞞住老婆同個女自己做落去而又唔俾佢做?
定係相反?
或一定共同進退,
而一開始就正正常咁(二十世紀初)男外女內
寧寧靜靜一齊做個安於本份既平民?
其實我打呢篇野
當然唔係想同大家上堂"偉人歷史"堂
我只係想打出來, post上來
將自己既志氣迫多少少出來
去應付十日後的final
最後以好明顯是主角的Marie Curie的一些名言來結束
--Quotes of Maria Sklodowska-Curie:
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
極認同. 不過我呢個學期SKIP得最多既就係堂CHEM LAB, 其實我覺做LAB好好玩, 因為我自己動作慢既關係, 變得好危險, 好刺激, 做到個結果之後好有滿足感, d IR亂七八糟又好似幅畫咁. 不過Gray又唔check report, 又七點半堂, 所以我如果skip任何一堂第一選擇都係堂CHEM LAB, 成個學期都有覺得好對唔住自己, Gray, 同班chem.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
我自小就明白呢個道理, 就只差在做唔做得好.(好=適當時機+適當程度+適當耐度)
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
我想送呢句俾某人, 順便提醒一下自己. 我幾時變得如此膽小? 呢幾日既我唔係真正既我! 真正既我係唔應該怕既!
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
我真係真係太唔productive, 但係我都成日好覺我仲有好多野未做咁. 呢d感覺唔知係唔係天生, 不過如果再強d會仲推動到我更進一步. 現在我極需要一種實事求事既精神同真正付出一點努力, 我知道唔努力係唔會成功...
One of our pleasures was to enter our workshop at night; then, all around us, we would see the luminous silhouettes of the beakers and capsules that contained our products.
睇到呢句, 好感動.
對於佢來講, 上面個句應該就係佢感覺到既幸福.
而可以分享對她的敬佩也是很高興的一件事.
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