research blog

a quote:

"The work of real science is hard and often for long intervals frustrating. You have to be a bit compulsive to be a productive scientist. Keep in mind that new ideas are commonplace, and almost always wrong. Most flashes of insight lead nowhere; statistically, they have a half-life of hours or maybe days. Most experiments to follow up the surviving insights are tedious and consume large amounts of time, only to yield negative or ~worse!! ambiguous results. "

Edward O. Wilson, ‘‘Scientists, Scholars, Knaves and Fools,’’ American Scientist 86 ~66 ~1998!.