wow, i found my next piece of material to tack up over my desk in lab, this time from Dr Jekyll & Mrs Hyde

Things I learned in grad school 4: Thinking vs doing
One of the most difficult aspects of science for me to deal with when I entered graduate school was empiricism. I came to a love of science from the intellectual, not the practical, end. I liked the questions, ideas, and logic. I was under the impression that, because scientific phenomena underlie our whole existence, any sort of practical problem could be solved by application of reason and logic......

i straddle the line of doer verses thinker when it comes to experimental design, but this post is great for reminding you that sometimes the tiny, seemingly insignificant details are what muddle results.