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Learning to Learn
is not instinctive - learn how to learn.
If you are aiming for scholarship, you can never know too much - be ambitious!
As you study science try to develop it into
the way you experience the Universe, rather than just seeing it as a
description of the Universe.
The examination syllabus is there to tell you
what will be examined, not the totality of what you could learn.
Understanding is everything -
insist on explanations, not just facts. Don't be
fobbed off by 'you don't need the explanation for the exam' - that
isn't the point of scholarship.
People who tell you that you
don't need facts are wrong - unless you have facts you can't build
patterns of knowledge, and without patterns of knowledge you can't build
Don't just stick to your set exam
text - read as widely as you can in books and periodicals.
You can never know too much.
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1956 Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
1957 Lord Todd
1958 Frederick Sanger
1959 Jaroslav Heyrovsky
1960 Willard Libby
1961 Melvin Calvin
1962 Max Perutz
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