Some scientists spend most of their lives learning how to do good experiments.

Young scientists spend very few years working with their own hands before becoming administrators.

As a result the paper work increases until the scientists are actually spending a fifth or a quarter of their time writing reports.

Many conservation workers, volunteers and scientists spend time on the islands in the summer months.

But scientists have spent at least 50 years trying to find out how the brain manages this feat.

At the same time, scientists will spend the next year or two putting together a recovery plan to help save the species.

One scientist might spend much of his career in the observation stage.

Another scientist may never spend a great deal of time designing and running experiments.

But no scientist had ever spent time in prison for fabricating data.

Many scientists spend weeks, or even months, in the construction of their own particular research apparatus.