"...What is the goal of starting a lab? It is sometimes easy to pick up a default value, common in current culture, such as 'the goal of my lab is to publish the maximum number of papers of the highest quality'. However... we will frame the goal differently: "A lab is a nurturing environment that aims to maximize the potential of students as scientists and as human beings'..."

 

Uri Alon, 'How to choose a good scientific problem'