Maria Mayer Quotes

#1. The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

James Rainwater

#2. 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

#3. This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

Boris Johnson

#4. 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

#5. I want to dominate a little more, just be a level beyond everyone else. I expect that from myself.

Andre Iguodala

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

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

#7. He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps.
I win.

Ilona Andrews

#8. 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

#9. Witnessed the moment of recognition that it was over or it wasn't. The look was never exactly the same. Rage, hate, shock, grief, anguish, terror, scorn, amusement, combinations of them, and nothing. As different as people are different.

Patricia Cornwell

#10. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson