Best 3 quotes of Maria Goeppert-mayer on MyQuotes

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

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.

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