a day in which science and art collide

So Marie Curie is my hero.

Because she was a girl and a chemist. 

And she won the Nobel Prize twice and discovered two elements (radium and polonium) and did a ton of stuff with x-rays (and then died because of it).

She is buried in the Pantheon in Paris.

I got to go there.

And pay my respects.

Thanks Marie, for all your inspiration.

Her husband Pierre, also a scientist, is in the tomb underneath hers.

After the Pantheon, my mom and I went to the Rodin Museum. I loved, loved, loved it. It's really small, in the house where he lived (more like a mansion, big for a house, small for a museum), and then in the gardens behind the house as well. All of his sculptures looked like pieces I would actually want to display, because they were beautiful. They looked so alive! I loved all of the ones of hands, like The Cathedral (below) or The Secret (right). I also really liked any of the ones that looked unfinished, like they just emerged from the stone. And of course, the Thinker was great. I even bought a little Thinker eraser (like it's a man thinking...and you can erase pencil with it...bwahaha).