Edward Mills Purcell Professions : Physicist Born : August 30, 1912 Died : March 7, 1997 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Edward Mills Purcell 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 important education mean 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 rewards discovery world Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular. Edward Mills Purcell majestic lows numbers 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. Edward Mills Purcell eye winter science 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 long past Similar Authors Gabriel Lippmann physicist Burton Richter physicist Bruno Rossi physicist Bruce Maccabee physicist Brian Cox physicist Allan McLeod Cormack physicist All Authors
