SCIENTIST 10 COMMANDMENTS 1) Go to your laboratory or your - TopicsExpress



          

SCIENTIST 10 COMMANDMENTS 1) Go to your laboratory or your instrument without any pre-conceived ideas. Just register what you saw faithfully. 2) Report promptly and scientifically. Check your numbers twice before submitting. 3) Forget about predictions. They maybe wrong. 4) Do not try to conform or find agreement with others. You may be the first to be observing a new phenomenon and you may risk missing credit for the discovery. 5) Criticism must be scientific, respectful, constructive, positive and unbiased. Otherwise it must be done privately. 6) If you want to be respected, respect others first. Do no use insulting or humiliating words when referring to others. It is not in accord with scientific ethics. 7) Do not cheat. Cheating in science is silly. When others repeat your experiment or observation, they will find that you were wrong. 8) If you do not know or if you have made a mistake, admit it immediately. You may say: I do not know but I will find out. Or I will correct it immediately. No scientist knows the answer to everything. By admitting it you are being honest about your knowledge and your abilities. 9) Do not appropriate or ignore other peoples work or results. Always give credit to others whatever small their contribution may have been. Do not do unto others what you would not like to be done unto you. 10) Do not stray from scientific ethics. Ignacio Ferrín, Ph. D., Center for Fundamental Physics, University of the Andes, Mérida, Venezuela respuestas2010@gmail
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:34:07 +0000

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