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What is it in an individual scientist’s relation to Nature that facilitates the kind of seeing that eventually leads to productive discourse?…Over and over again, she [Barbara McClintock] tells us one must have the time to look, the patience to “hear what the material has to say to you,” the openness to “let it come to you.” Above all, one must have “a feeling for the organism.”
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Varelas, M. (2012). Introduction. In: Varelas, M. (eds) Identity Construction and Science Education Research. Bold Visions in Educational Research, vol 35. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-043-9_1
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