Maria Goeppert-Mayer quotes
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“My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.”
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“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.”
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“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-MayerSource : "A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists". Book by Russell L. Herman, p. 53, December 4, 2013.
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“Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.”
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“I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press
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