Reminds me of what an old Ph.D said once to some technicians, when one of his experiments exploded in the lab: “Well, that’s R&D. Clean it up.”
Don’t leave those hydrogenation experiments running
over the weekend when they were supposed to end after
one day. And to all graduate students, photocopy those
dissertion data notebooks and keep the copies offsite.
Offsite backups. OFFSITE, got it? Same goes for anyone
doing research outside of formal education. Remember
Victor Deeb.