Maria Goeppert-Mayer Quotes

• Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

  Maria Goeppert-Mayer

  Winning, Effectiveness, Half

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• Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

  Maria Goeppert-Mayer

  Nature, Math, Men

  "A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists". Book by Russell L. Herman, p. 53, December 4, 2013.

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• My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.

  Maria Goeppert-Mayer

  Growing Up, Father, Said

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• The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the experimental data, plotting them in different ways, and looking for interconnections.

  Maria Goeppert-Mayer

  Science, Data, Different

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