Quotes from Paul Lauterbur

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!

I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do.

With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.