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Barbara McClintock: When you know...

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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.

Source: Honoring a Modern Mendel, by Claudia Wallis, in Time, 24 Oct 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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