The geneticist Barbara McClintock once said of her research, I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it. One of my friends, a geneticist, said I was a child, because only children can't wait to get up in the morning to get at what they want to do.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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There is no question that plants have all kinds of sensitivities. But just because they sit there, anybody walking down the road considers them just a plastic area to look at, as if they're not really alive.
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When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the wash.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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