Maria Goeppert-Mayer famous quotes

05-15-2025

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

#Growing Up #Father #Said
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

#Data #Way #Different
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

#Men #Mind #Too Much
Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
-- Maria Goeppert-Mayer

#Winning #Effectiveness #Half

My dad was so much fun growing up.
I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.
I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.
There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer famous quotes

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