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