Postdoc Quotes

#1. When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Randy Schekman

#2. The curse of imagination is picturing the world as it should be.

Morley

#3. After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#4. Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.

Trelise Cooper

#5. I got the pilot for 'Scrubs' sent to me, and in the margin for Dr. Cox, it said 'a John McGinley type.' So when I went in to audition, I said to Billy Lawrence, who's a dear friend of mine, I said, 'Well, I'm John McGinley.'

John C. McGinley

#6. The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

Eric Allin Cornell

#7. Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.

Charlie Munger

#8. When I see what I want, I do it.

Estelle Parsons

#9. The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche