1、No technical skill is worth more than knowig how to select excitngresearch projects.

2、If you know why you have chosen to work on a particular problem, itis easy to present an absorbing seminar.

3、By making my work meaningful to others, it became interesting to meas well.

4、Collaboration does not work, as a rule, for two young competitors.

5、Do his or her students see the big picture?

6、You must decide in what erea of science to make your name.

7、Although attention to detail is important, and publishing resultsthat later turn out to be incorrect is anything but desirable, finishingprojects and having a story to tell are essential.Under time pressure, you mayhave to sacrifice your desire for perfection, you may have to live with thefear that you haven’t got everything just right, in order to develop a storythat you can use to sell yourself.

8、The famous physicist Wolfgang Pauli is remembered for complainingironically that the work of a young colleague “isn’t even wrong.”

9、What you accomplished as a graduate student does not count for muchin later life, unless it is very exceptional.

10、The opening lines of a talk set the tone. make a “first impression”.The main impressions that you want to make are 1)that you know youre field,2)that you are possessed of the scientific curiosity that will make you avaluable colleague, 3)that you enjoy doing research, and 4)that plan to conveysome usefull and interesting information.

11、You certainly should outline your presentation in the privacy ofyour office. But in giving you talk, you should just tell a story.

12、One of the wonderful ablities people have is to take in defferntinformation with their eyes and ears, simultaneously. If you have collaboratorsnot annouced as coauthoers, and a funding agency, do acknowledge them on yourtitle slide, but do not waste time reading their names.

13、You need to convey not the details of your math but the basicconcepts, the approxmations, the results, and the predictions. Think aboutthat. Then throw away that slide full of superscripts and subscripts.

14、Nevertheless, you do not want to give the impression that thinkingabout how your slides look is more important to you than what they say.

15、It is widely accepted that a scientific endeavor is not completeuntil is has been written up.

16、The introduction to a paper is where you tell your story, possiblyillustating the next with a improtant figure or some key results, but withoutgoing into great detail. Here is where you want to explain why your project wasan important one to undertake and how your results make a difference to the waywe understand the world.

17、If you have been working on a project for several months or a yearsolely because other people are interested in it, you have a lot to learn aboutproblem selection.

18、In wirting your introduction, as well as the body of your paper, itis extremely important that you place your work in context, non only byexplaining what you did and why, but also by citing the relevant literature.

19、Within the journal’s constraints, howevre, the key to organizingyour work is to make your text read like a story.

20、The goal of conclusions section is to leave your reader thinkingabout how your work affects his own research plans.

21、If enough of you start to act rationally, the system may eventuallybe rationalized.

22、Problem-orientation means keeping clearly in mind the scientificproblems you want to solve, and working toward their solution even if it meanslearning or developing a new technique from time to time.

22、Being problem-oriented does not mean that you need to master everytechnique necessary to solve a problem of interest---often it will make moresense to take on a collaborator thant to learn yet another method.

23、It is the researchers who focus on a significant problem, and arewilling to bring to it whatever resources are necessary, who give the mostinteresting talks, write the most significant paper, and win grant support mosteasily.

24、The most obvious is to aim at an important long-term goal byplanning your work as a sequence of short-term projects. Another importantstrategy for establishing a successful scientific career is to work on morethan one project at a time.

25、No matter clever you are, and particularly if you choose to work ina fashionable research area, you will have some very clever competitors.

26、The timely introduction of new ideas speeds up the development of afield and prevents duplication of effort.

27、There is a strong tendency to become narrower and deeper as youprogress scientifically.

28、Before moving into a fashionable field, you must ask yourselfwhether you have a realistic chance of emerging from the mob as someone who hasmade an important advance.

29、A less risky course is to try to lead rather than to follow fashion.

30、No one ever got ahead in science by saving money.