Edward Mills Purcell quotes
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“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 PurcellSource : "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, Decemebr 11, 1952.
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“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.”
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“I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.”
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“To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.”
-- Edward Mills Purcell -
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“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.”
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“Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.”
-- Edward Mills PurcellSource : "Life at Low Reynolds Number". American Journal of Physics, January 1977.
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Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Breathe”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”
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