Edward Mills Purcell quotes

Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular. (Edward Mills Purcell)
To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell
The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell
It is an old story in physics that higher resolving power leads to new effects. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell
It is an old story in physics that higher resolving power leads to new effects. We remember that the magnetic moment of the nucleus was itself discovered through the hyperfine structure of lines in the visible spectrum. The nuclear resonance line in a liquid or gas can be remarkably narrow, as you have already seen. As soon as the reason for this was recognized, it became clear that the only practical limit on resolution was the inhomogeneity of the magnetic field applied to the specimen. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell