Английский язык для аспирантов и соискателей. Минакова Т.В. - 19 стр.

      To discuss one's idea; How very interesting; Let us see what we can do about it;
there are gaps in (пробелы) your knowledge; I'll fill up my gap of knowledge in the
library; I want to know everything possible in the field of my research; it is necessary
to consider the facts.

     1.3.4 Use the following situations to start a short talk:

     1 Your scientific adviser has looked through your paper meant for the
conference. He is making some critical remarks now.
     1 You are upset about your research findings. You can't get any positive result.
Your friend tries to cheer you up.

     1.3.5 Think of situations where the following proverbs can be used:

       1) Well begun is half done - Лиха беда - начало;
       2) A big ship sales in deep waters - Большому кораблю - большое
   плавание.

      1.4 Additional material for reading

     1.4.1 Some Aspects of Research Work Organization

                                English - Speaking Countries
Science is not licensed profession, and to be counted as a scientist one need not be a
Doctor of Philosophy… But a scientist without a Ph.D. (or a medical degree) is like a
lay brother in a Cistercian monastery. Generally he has to labor in the fields while
others sing in the choir. If he goes into academic life, he can hope to become a
professor only at the kind of college or university where faculty members are given
neither time nor facilities for research… A young scientist with a bachelor's or a
master's degree will probably have to spend his time working on problems, or pieces
of problems, that are assigned to him by other people and that are of more practical
than scientific interest. Wherever he works, the prospects are slight that he will be
given much autonomy and freedom. Having a Ph. D. or its equivalent - a medical
degree plus post-graduate training in research - has become in fact, if not in law, a
requirement for full citizen ship in the American scientific community.

     1.4.2 Leading Research Centres

      To be successful as a scientist, it is important not only to have a Ph. D., but to
have earned it at the right place. From the standpoint of rightness, American
universities may be divided into three groups. The first is made up of those
institutions to which the term "leading" may appropriately be applied. They include
Chicago, Cal Tech, the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard,
Illinois, M.I.T. (=Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Michigan, Princeton,
Stanford, Wisconsin, Yale, and perhaps two or three others. These are the universities
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