Edward Mills Purcell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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. 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.”
-- Edward Mills Purcell

#Eye #Winter #Discovery
“The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.”
-- Edward Mills Purcell

#Mean #Important #Statistics
“I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.”
-- Edward Mills Purcell

#Eye #Winter #Years
“To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.”
-- Edward Mills Purcell

#Discovery #World #Rewards
“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.”
-- Edward Mills Purcell

#Men #Past #Long
“Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.”
-- Edward Mills Purcell

#Numbers #Majestic #Lows

Edward Mills Purcell Quote To See The World For A Moment As Something Rich And Strange

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