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Young Scientists Should First Attack Small Problems

“It is well known that youth have a tendency to attack the major problems and begin their careers with a major piece of work. It is necessary to restrain such ambition, which might easily lead...

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What It Takes To Be a Successful Scientist

“The future scientist is typically an ardent patriot who is eager to bring honor to himself and to his country, captivated by originality, indifferent to material gain and ordinary pleasures,...

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How to Identify Young Scientists with Potential for Success

“The diagnosis of a scientific calling is…difficult. One must use finer distinguishing signs to cull the genuine from the counterfeit. “Ostwald has dealt with more or less the same...

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Successful Science Can Start from Limited Resources

“We could cite dozens of classic examples of modest beginnings…Enthusiasm and perseverance work miracles. It is the exception when an inexperienced investigator succeeds in launching his...

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How to Choose a Research Topic

“Finally, when we discover ourselves surrounded by a number of equally promising and fertile problems to work on, choose the one whose methodology we understand clearly, and the one we have a...

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Great Scientists vs. Encyclopedists: Sharp vs. Dull Swords

“Like unmolded steel, our mind represents a potential sword. The forging and polishing of study transform it into the tempered and keen scalpel of science. Let us have a cutting edge on only...

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Unequaled Joys of Scientific Discovery

“As we have already noted, the joyful emotion associated with the act of discovery is so great that it is easy to understand the sublime madness of Archimedes. Historians tell us that he was so...

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Scientists Should Concentrate on One Specific Research Area at a Time

“Even those with mediocre talent can produce notable work in the various sciences, so long as they do not try to embrace all of them at once. instead, they should concentrate attention on one...

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Great Science Requires Deep Concentration

“To pursue fully the topic of our research with the limited facilities that we have, let us forget unrelated pursuits and the parasitic ideas connected with the futile trifles of everyday life....

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Fast vs. Slow Thinkers in Scientific Discovery

“What we refer to as a great and special talent usually implies superiority that is expeditious rather than qualitative. In other words, it simply means doing quickly and with brilliant success...

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