When I started my PhD, I didn't have a background in nanotechnology, and I really struggled to grasp the concepts that exist at nanoscale.
I remember talking to my supervisor about one of the concepts that contradicted the whole understanding that I had learned from seven years of study of material science and engineering technology.
There was a rubbish bin outside of his office window, and he said to me, “Could you please just go outside to that bin and vomit everything you've learnt into it? It doesn't help you. What you've learned is the knowledge of
