When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.
I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.