Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Lauterbur

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Paul Lauterbur.
Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Paul Lauterbur

Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.

By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!
With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.
I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do. — © Paul Lauterbur
I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do.
If it doesn't seem possible, nothing much gets done.
You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.
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