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 slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

Nawal El Saadawi

#3. 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

#4. Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity,
I owe the happiest moments of my life,
let me fall prostrate.

Colley Cibber

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

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

#6. The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

R. G. LeTourneau

#7. A happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers

#8. Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Plutarch

#9. I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.

Woody Allen

#10. 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

#11. We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.

Lisa Kudrow

#12. My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

John Philpot Curran