About this title: A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains her work in genetics and traces her long unheralded career as a research scientist.
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Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: W. H. Freeman Pub Date: 2/15/1984 Binding: Paperback Pages: 235. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780716715047ISBN:071671504X
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has wear to corners, owner's stamp inside. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 235 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W H Freeman & Co
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780716715047ISBN:071671504X
Description: Good. No Jacket. Spine edges and corners bumped, edge wear, sticker on front cover, stamp on bottom page ends, highlighting throughout book. read more
"The word 'understanding' and the particular meaning she attributed to it, is the cornerstone of Barbara McClintock's entire approach to science. For her, the smallest details provided the keys to the larger whole. It was her conviction that the closer her focus, the greater her attention to individual detail, to the unique characteristics of a single plant, of a single kernel, of a single chromosome, the more she could learn about the general principles by which the maize plant as a whole was organized, the better her 'feeling for the organism.'" (101)
"The crucial point of this story, to her, is the state of mind required in making such judgments. 'It is done with complete confidence, complete understanding. I understood every plant. Without being able to know what I was integrating, I understood the phenotype.' What does understanding mean here? 'It means that I was using a computer that was working very rapidly and very perfectly. I couldn't train anyone to do that."'" (102-103)
"Her virtuosity resided in her capacity to observe, and to process and interpret what she observed. As she grew older, it became less and less possible to delegate any part of her work; she was developing skills that she could hardly identify herself, much less impart to others. /The nature of insight in science, as elsewhere, is notoriously elusive. And almost all great scientists--those who learn to cultivate insight--learn also to respect its mysterious workings. It is here that their rationality finds its own limits. In defying rational explanation, the process of creative insight inspires awe in those who experience it. They come to know, trust, and value it." (103)"
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