A Quote by Maria Goeppert-Mayer

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

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Began Created Like Man Mathematics Mind Much Nature Physics Puzzle Puzzles Seem Solving Too Too Much

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Maria Goeppert-Mayer
American - Physicist
June 28, 1906 - February 20, 1972

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