Quotes by Maria Goeppert Mayer

“Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.”

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

“[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.”