Top 17 Barbara Mcclintock Quotes
#1. Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of nature share in the responsibility for this ecological spiraling down.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Of Constantinople
#2. The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?
Rumi
#3. A community ceases to be so once the members of it become less than resolute in their support of each other. Many of
Sandra Gregory
#4. 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
#5. Cacophony of typewriter keys being pounded and typewriter carriages returning, phones ringing, men yelling and coughing, electric fans here and there droning as they hacked the unbearable heat into intolerable hot tufts.
Richard Flanagan
#6. Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors.
Guglielmo Marconi
#7. The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.
Todd Skinner
#8. I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.
Tim Tebow
#9. I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock
#10. I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.
Natasha Lyonne
#12. When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.
John Bytheway
#13. You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
David Edwards
#14. I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
Barbara McClintock
#15. 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
#16. They shared a small moment of bizarre, companionable silence -they boy who'd forgotten everything about his history, and the boy who'd never known it.
Cassandra Clare
#17. It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.
Aldous Huxley
