I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
Edward Mills PurcellI 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 earthโs magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
Edward Mills PurcellTo see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.
Edward Mills Purcell