Soil-Plant Nutrient Cycling and Environmental Quality
Department
of Plant and Soil Sciences
SOIL
5813
W.R.
Raun, G.V. Johnson,
R.W. Mullen, K.W. Freeman,
and R.L. Westerman
044 N. Ag Hall
Tel: (405) 744-6418
FAX: (405) 744-5269
wrr@mail.pss.okstate.edu
gvj@mail.pss.okstate.edu
rwm@okstate.edu
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"In recent years the 'human
rights' issue has generated much interest and debate around the world. It is a utopian issue and a noble goal to
work toward. Nevertheless, in the real
world, the attainment of human rights in the fullest sense can not be achieved
so long as hundreds of millions of poverty stricken people lack the basic
necessities for life. The right to dissent
does not mean much to a person with an empty stomach, a shirtless back, a
roofless dwelling, the frustrations and fear of unemployment and poverty, the
lack of education and opportunity, and the pain, misery and loneliness of
sickness without medical care. It is my
belief that all who are born into the world have the moral right to the basic
ingredients for a decent, human life."
Norman
E. Borlaug
1970
Nobel Peace Prize
"Learning science and thinking
about science or reading a paper is not about learning what a person did. You have to do that, but to really absorb it,
you have to turn it around and cast it in a form as if you invented it
yourself. You have to look and be able
to see things that other people looked at and didn't see before. How do you do that? There's two ways. Either you make a new instrument, and it
gives you better eyes, like Galileo's telescope. And that's a great way to do it, make such a
nice instrument that you don't have to be so smart, you just look and there it
is. Or you try to internalize it in such
a way that it really becomes intuitive.
Working on the right problem is only part of what it takes to
succeed. Perseverance is another
essential ingredient."
Steven
Chu
1997
Nobel Prize, Physics
intuition:
immediate apprehension or cognition; without evident rational thought and
inference; quick and ready insight
Soil-Plant Nutrient Cycling and
Environmental Quality
Students, 1992-
2002
Spring 1992 Spring 1994 Spring 1996 Spring 1998 Spring 2000
Mohd Akbar Jeri L. Anderson Justin Carpenter Erna Lukina Elbek Arslanov
John V.
Altom Jeffrey B. Ball