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Hey SBC, From my experience, I would like to tell you that this is the age of specialists and not polymaths. As someone already mentioned, you must consider your priorities. Science today is highly specialized. Lots of basic things are already known. Experiments have to run for days. Think of...

I think I know something about #2. While new graduate schools are emerging in Germany (where applicants are chosen by a committee), the traditional process is to find a professor who is willing to take you as a doctoral student. So, if you are looking for some kind of theoretical stuff, the...