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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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
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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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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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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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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