Authoring a PhD

Accelerated Learning for the
21st Century
(London: Piatkus, 1997), p. 193.
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19. Quoted in Rose and Nicoholl, 
Accelerated Learning
, p. 195.
20. Quoted in Sertillanges, 
The Intellectual Life
, p. 223.
21. Quoted in G. G. Neil Wright, 
Teach Yourself to Study
(London:
English Universities Press, 1945), p. 123, from Shaw’s play, 
Major
Barbara
, Act III.
22.
Sunday Times Magazine
, 28 January 2001, p. 25. Eddie Izzard is a
well-known British comedian.
23. Quoted in L. Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances: Political Research as a
Creative Art
(Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1997), p. iv.
24. G. A. Miller, ‘The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some
limits on our capacity for processing information’, 
Psychological
Review
, (1956), vol. 63, no.1, pp. 81–97.
25. Quoted in Rose and Nicoholl, 
Accelerated Learning
, p. 198. Linus
Pauling won the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
26. Quoted in Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 10.
27. Michel de Montaigne, (1533–92), quoted in Sertillanges, 
The
Intellectual Life
, p. 186. Sertillanges goes on: ‘Notes are a sort of
external memory.’
28. Blaise Pascal, 
Pensées
(London: Dent, 1932), p. 101, Thought num-
ber 370.
29. Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 298.
30. Quoted by Lewis Wolpert, 
The Unnatural Nature of Science
(London:
Faber, 1992), p. 81. This quote was a favourite of Alexander
Fleming (1881–1955), the discoverer of penicillin. In the
Hollywood film, 
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
a shortened version
(‘fortune favours the prepared mind’) was also the motto of the
arch-villain, a terrorist plotting to blow up the world by triggering
earthquakes from space satellites.
31. Virginia Woolf, 
A Room of One’s Own
(Frogmore, St Albans, Herts:
Granada Publishing, 1983), p. 32.
32. Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), one of the ‘founding fathers’ of
the US constitution. The singer John Mellencamp uses an almost
identical formulation in the anthem 
You’ve got to stand
, from his
CD
Scarecrow
(New York: Polygram, 1985).
33. Teilhard de Chardin, 
The Phenomenon of Man
(London:
HarperCollins, 1975), p. 323.
34. Albert Hirschman, in his paper ‘The Hiding Hand’, quoted in 
J. Elster, 
Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 158.
35. Elster, 
Sour Grapes
, p. 158.
36. Quoted in Dimnet, 
The Art of Thinking
, p. 95.
37. A character in Robertson Davies’s novel, 
The Lyre of Orpheus
(London: Penguin, 1989), p. 212.
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38. Louis Pasteur, quoted in many websites.
39. Quoted in Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 58.
40. Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
.
41. Quoted in Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 48.
42. Minkin, 
Exits and Entrances
, p. 15.
43. Quoted in Francis Wheen, 
Karl Marx
(London: Fourth Estate,
1999), p. 311.
Chapter 3
Planning an integrated thesis:
the macro-structure
1. Vladimir Nabokov, quoted in 
The Guardian
, 23 December 1999,
G2 section, p. 3.
2. Neil Young from ‘Crime in the City’ on his CD