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.
More Quotes from Barbara McClintock:
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.Barbara McClintock
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
Barbara McClintock
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.
Barbara McClintock
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.
Barbara McClintock
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
Barbara McClintock
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