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