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Chapter 1
Introduction
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chapter 2
Getting Started
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Chapter 3
Setting Goals and Objectives
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
Chapter 4
How to Think Like a Scientist
Science is a way of thinking much more
than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
Chapter 5
Designing Good Experiments
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry.
There is no place for dogma in science.
The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question,
to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
Robert Oppenheimer
Chapter 6
Charting your Progress Month by Month
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Chapter 7
Dealing with Setbacks
Science has promised us truth.
It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
Gustave Le Bon
Chapter 8
The Art of Good Communication
or
How to get along with your lab mates et al.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird.
Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Paul McCartney
Chapter 9
The Art of Good Communication,
Part 2
Presentation Skills and Group Meetings
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed,
the oldest problem in the relations between human beings,
and in the end the communicator will be confronted
with the old problem of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow
Chapter 10
Searching the Scientific Literature
The history of science knows scores of instances
where an investigator was in the possession
of all the important facts for a newtheory,
but simply failed to ask the right questions.
Ernst Mayr
Chapter 11
Your First International Conference
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
Chapter 12
From Data to Manuscript:
Writing Scientific Papers That Shine
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,
(s)he’s one who asks the right questions.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Chapter 13
Celebrate Your Success
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Chapter 14
How to Cope with Your Annual Evaluation
If you don’t learn from your mistakes,
there’s no sense in making them.
Anonymous
Chapter 15
The Final Year:
Countdown to Your Thesis Defence
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Chapter 16
Putting it all Together:
A PhD…soWhat’s Next?
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Albert Einstein
Chapter 17
Writing Your Doctoral Thesis with Style
If I have seen farther than other men,
it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
Sir Isaac Newton
Chapter 18
The Final Act:
Defending Your Thesis with Panache
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom,
but to set a limit to infinite error.
Bertolt Brecht
Chapter 19
Lessons Learned
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence,
the second listening, the third memory,
the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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