"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."
— Puzzle

January 1, 1970

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Maria Goeppert Mayer in: Russell L. Herman A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists, CRC Press, 4 December 2013, p. 53