My Improbable Mentor Quotes Osler

Memories to Stanisław Kielich: My teacher, my mentor and my friend

A consistent scheme is proposed for quantizing the potential amplitude in the Schrödinger equation in the caseof negative energies (lying in the discrete-spectrum domain). The properties of the eigenfunctionsφν(r) and eigenvalues ανcorresponding to zero, small, and large absolute values of energy E < 0 are analyzed. Expansion in the set {φν(r)} is used todevelop a regular pertur...

Improbable Creativity

We begin with a number of basic facts about creativity and a brief history of the idea. These provide criteria that any definition of the term should meet and help guide us to a new definition of creativity. This definition is independent of cultural appropriateness or the perceived value of creative objects, ideas which have encumbered previous investigations. We briefly defend our definition ...

Statements in Quotes

TECHNOLOGY has rendered accounting obsolete. Recognition and acceptance of this fact are necessary if accountants are to make meaningful change, rather than fritter away their limited resources trying to repair the creaking, sagging, old machine. Presumably, if accountants had been assigned the job of landing man on the moon, we would still be earthbound while they continued to tinker with an o...

Referees' quotes – 2010

Our referees, the Editorial Board Members and ad hoc reviewers, are busy, serious individuals who give selflessly of their precious time to improve manuscripts submitted to Microbial Biotechnology. But, once in a while, their humour (or admiration) gets the better of them. Here are some quotes from reviews provided during 2010, to induce a light-hearted start to 2011. • During the holidays I wa...

Referees' quotes – 2009