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by nython 2259 days ago
> There were happy go lucky chemists that fell into projects that were smooth as butter

If it makes you feel any better (I 'quit' at the start of my bioinformatics PhD), there's a high chance that their projects went smooth as butter because they were also happy-go-lucky about double-checking their results. See for example that 75% yield paper you mentioned.