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Butzin lab rules for writing
Butzin lab rules for writing
State the obvious.
Get to the point immediately.
Summarize before the next point.
Simpler is usually better.
Pictures are worth a thousand words.
Assume your reader is a novice.
Write as a team.
Edit, edit, break . . . edit (repeat).
Source: "Calamity Jen." The IT Crowd. BBC. 3 February 2006.
Our Synthetic Biology Way:
Our Synthetic Biology Way:
If it is not broken, break it.
If you can observe it, quantify it.
If you can imagine it, draw it.
If it does not exist, build it."
Nicholas C. Butzin (2017)
Lead: Don’t worry about stepping on other people’s toes; they can wear shoes while you get things done.
Lead: Don’t worry about stepping on other people’s toes; they can wear shoes while you get things done.
Nicholas C. Butzin (08/17/20)
Follow the data, accept changes, and move on!
Follow the data, accept changes, and move on!
Nicholas C. Butzin (10/04/20)
Stupid things should be called out when written; otherwise, no one will know when smart things are printed.
Stupid things should be called out when written; otherwise, no one will know when smart things are printed.
Nicholas C. Butzin (03/03/21)
People talk about science being a fishing expedition. The thing is, people fish all the time, and they get fish.
People talk about science being a fishing expedition. The thing is, people fish all the time, and they get fish.
Nicholas C. Butzin (08/11/21)
Some things should be hard
Some things should be hard
"There’s always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible and wrong."
Henry Louis Mencken
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein
Get to work
Get to work
"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
Stephen King
"After high school, no one cares about your potential; we care about results."
Nicholas C. Butzin (06/15/22)
"Work. Work hard!"
Tahmina Hossain's advice to student researchers (01/07/21)
Always test your predictions and assumptions
Always test your predictions and assumptions
" Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
Albert Einstein
“How bad does a guess have to be for it to be an uneducated guess?”
Demetri Martin
"We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress."
Richard Feynman
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