Selected Maria Goeppert Mayer Quotations
• For a long time I have considered even the craziest ideas about atom nucleus... and suddenly I discovered the truth.
• 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.
• On winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963: Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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Jone Johnson Lewis. "Maria Goeppert Mayer Quotes." About Women's History. URL: http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/qu_goeppertmayr.htm . Date accessed: (today). (More on how to cite online sources including this page)
