My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.
The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.
