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21 " I mean application, diligence, a sense of purpose, the power to concentrate, to persevere and not be cast down by adversity_by finding out after long and weary inquiry, for example, that a dearly loved hypothesis bis in large measure mistaken. "
― , Advice To A Young Scientist
22 " No, the problem ( necessary to achieve important scientific discoveries) must be such that it matters what the answer is- whether to science generally or to mankind. "
23 " Isolation is disagreeable and bad for graduate students. The need to avoid it is one of the best arguments for joining some intellectually bustling concern. "
24 " For these reasons a young scientist must not be disheartened if he does not become the eponym of a natural principle phenomenon or disease. Although the importance of discoveries maybe overrated no young scientists need think that he will gain a reputation or high performant merely by compiling information particularly information of the kind nobody really wants. But if he makes the world more easily understandable by any means whether theoretical or experimental he will learn his colleagues gratitude and respect. "
25 " After graduate students have taken their phd's they must or no account continue with their are PhD work for the remainder of their lives easy and tempting though it is to type up loose ends and wonder down attractive byways. "
26 " Whatever may be thought about the Ph.D. treadmill, this new postdoctoral revolution is an unqualifiedly good thing, and it is very much to be hoped that the patrons and benefactors if science will not allow it to languish. "
27 " İşbirliği biraz ruh cömertliği gerektirir ve bir genç bilimci kıskançlığa benzer bir huy fark eder, arkadaşlarını kıskandığını hissederse başkaları ile çalışmaya girmemelidir. "
28 " ... It is my recollection of these bad times that accounts for the earnestness of my advice to young scientists that they should have more than one string to their bow and should be willing to take no for an answer if the evidence points that way. "
29 " A novice must stick it out until he discovered whether the rewards and compensations of a scientific life are for him commensurate with the disappointments and the toil; but if once a scientist experiences the exhilaration of discovery and the satisfaction of carrying through a really tricky experiment- once he has felt that deeper and more expansive feeling Freud has called the "oceanic feeling" that is the reward for any real advancement of the understanding- then he is hooked and no other kind of life will do. "
30 " ... the satisfaction of Knowing that something is known.. "
31 " A scientist soon discovers that he has become a member of the cast of them in the context "What mischief are they up to now?" Or "They say we shall colonize the Moon in fifty years. "
32 " I am often asked, 'What made you become a scientist?' But I can't stand far enough away from myself to give a really satisfactory answer, for I cannot distinctly remember a time when I did not think that a scientist was the most exciting possible thing to be. "