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Making courageous career choices, says Linda Ko-Ferrigno, is a lot easier when "you have someone cheering you on."

"The best thing about it [CASE award] is it gives you a feel for what industry wants." –Robert Phillips

Stephen James: "As a scientist, you must be willing to work toward making a product." Gaining new knowledge for its own sake it not enough.

Moving from research to clinical work and back to research slows down career development.

By age 40, a mere 20% of astronomy PhDs have astronomy faculty jobs at universities (or scientific positions at observatories) in country …

This is an unusual position; I will have little bureaucracy and limited teaching.

If researchers are given a fair professional environment, says Alexandre Quintanilha, it will create "a better and more creative atmosphere for scientists."

Out on a mountain, Mather says, "you have to work with the situation" and solve the practical difficulties as best you can.

If you have initiative and energy," advises Kelman, "and are willing to commit to helping people and society, please grasp the opportunities. We need more people.

Science editors, says Jonathan Wood, need to be able "to spot a good story and find the right way of getting it across."

"I think I have been lucky in the choice of topics to work on, topics which later turned out to be useful for developments in an apparently different direction."