The Journey, Not the Answer
It never occurred to me that there was going to be any stumbling block. Not that I had the answer, but [I had] the joy of going at it. When you have that joy, you do the right experiments. You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be because you're integrating with an overall brand new pattern in mind.
Evelyn Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock (1983)
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Barbara McClintock describes what it is like to work for years without knowing the outcome.
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