Laboratory Chronicles.

"There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in "cargo cult science" It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid — not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked — to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.
Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can — if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong — to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it. There is also a more subtle problem. When you have put a lot of ideas together to make an elaborate theory, you want to make sure, when explaining what it fits, that those things it fits are not just the things that gave you the idea for the theory; but that the finished theory makes something else come out right, in addition.
In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another."

Richard Feynman
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The Holy Grail
its a must read for all newbies intending on pursing a research career.

MURPHY'S LAWS OF RESEARCH: Murphy was an Optimist

1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
4. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
5. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
6. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
7. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
8. Mother nature is a bitch.
9. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
10. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
11. Every solution breeds new problems.
12. Enough research will tend to support your theory.
13. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
14. Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
15. Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
16. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
17. All great discoveries are made by mistake.
18. Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
19.  If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.
20. If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
21. When all else fails, read the instructions.
22. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
23. Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.
24. Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way. 

 Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
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