Maria Goeppert-Mayer Quotes

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

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.

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

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.