Top 4 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

#4. 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

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