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"We really value equally the technical ability of the candidate and their interpersonal leadership skills." - Vlatko Vlatkovic

The cost of accepting a dead-end job, or working for a bad boss or an employer that isn't going anywhere, can be enormous.

He knew his invention would not have the impact it could have unless he led its introduction into the commercial market.

Your best weapon is focused, methodical, patient effort.

"Because opportunities are so few and far between, we are in fact sacrificing the future to pay for the present." --Lennard Fisk, space science professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

"We are focusing on people who have established that they are already very good scientists and are about to start or at the beginning of an independent career." --Fotis Kafatos, European Research Council President.

You don't know what you're getting into until you're in it; even now, I'm not so sure what I'm in.

"I thought, if these people are saying they can go to these places, maybe I can too." -- Lawrence Williams

"Those who succeed are well-grounded people who have seen success and believe they can do it too. They are not the type of people who worry too much or are easily intimidated," says Virginia Tech professor Michael Hochella.

Jones believes that senior scientists have "lost a sense of accountability to the next generation insofar as all of our interests in them are self interests ... so that
our career can get advanced but not necessarily
their career."

Being the best in the world holds little meaning if it is with respect to an infinitesimal niche of science that only you inhabit.

The minister's aim is to create an employment structure in the universities with a much larger base of younger, early-career scientists.

When it comes to accepting electronic applications, the agency is in no hurry to leave the FastLane.

"Companies play favorites. You're either one of the favored few, or you're an orphan stepchild, all depending upon where in the company you work."

"For miles and miles, everything looks, feels, and smells pure and uncontaminated," says Sasha Tozzi, a Ph.D. student working in Antarctica's Ross Sea.

Gonçalo Vieira set up a Portuguese IPY committee made up of 10 Portuguese biologists and geophysicists who together are leading Portugal's new polar research effort.

Starting the conference well-prepared and maintaining a proper balance between presentations and coffee breaks can make your conference experience a source of inspiration.

"I feel confident that my ideas are good enough to go up against the rest of the world, but the question is, can I generate enough preliminary data fast enough?
- Emmanuel Chang"

"I produce 10 data points that completely undermine what everybody thinks they know about the archaeological record here. It was really important and really interesting, and almost nobody believed me." -Joan Brenner Coltrain