But for most people, the decision to embark on a research career requires rather more thought--and rightly so.
Maus is a chilling and thought-provoking read and was rightly a bestseller, remaining the only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer prize.
Critics of social security privatization, shudder, perhaps rightly, at the thought of managers' loading up on risky tech stocks with taxpayer money.
Before we get too elated, however, we should perhaps pause for thought, for as the authors rightly point out, there are important reasons why the results appear to be so good.
The left everywhere rightly trembles at the thought of a Le Pen victory in France.
Greeks, rightly, shiver at the thought of amputation from monetary union.
Allan Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind" (1987), still an influential filleting of university life, features on its last page this thought: "I still believe that universities, rightly understood, are where community and friendship can exist in our times..
The thought here is that, as Locke (rightly) recognizes, my being more pleased with flying than walking does not consist in (or even entail) my willing to fly.
But for those in the mushy middle — about a third of the overall population — the local weather, rightly or wrongly, influences their thoughts on the topic, often subconsciously.
They might respect local activists' opinions and take them into account when reaching decisions, but MPs – rightly – retain an independence of thought and action.
