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Barbara McClintock: There is no...

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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.

Source: In A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, by Evelyn Fox Keller, 1983.
-- Barbara McClintock, (Jun 16 1902-1992), US scientist; She was one of the most important figures in the history of genetics; discovered mobile jumping genes; won Nobel Prize, 1983.


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