Strojnik assesses the core values of scientific research. The work of the true research scientist must include enhancing the health of the overall research enterprise, fostering integrity in science, and promoting the public's understanding of science for the purpose of improving the human condition. All scientists should practice and promote ethics and excellence at all times in their research. The true scientist is also dedicated to mentorship and to the advancement of knowledge through research, service, and teaching. And then, of course, there is the work itself: The true scientist must painstakingly check and recheck their results, methodologies, and assumptions. Only in that way, in community with equal-minded peers, can we build the scientific advances and engineering bases of our increasingly technological society.