Funding gathers, and now my research begins.

It shall not end until my death.

I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children.
I shall wear no crowns and win no glory.
I shall live and die at my post.

I am the sword of science.
I am the watcher in the labs.
I am the fire that burns against the illnesses, the light that brings the medication, the horn that wakes the agriculture, the shield that guards the knowledge of men.

I pledge my life and honor to the biological sciences,
for this day
and all the days to come.