The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Love can't exist without happiness. Happiness can't be spontaneous without love.

It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.

I don't think I'll ever grow old and say, "What was I thinking eating all those fruits and vegetables?

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

... he broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide his body.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.