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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