Nathanael Comfort – Journal of the History of Biology 32: 133–162, 1999.
Of McClintock’s much-vaunted interest in the paranormal, her friend Evelyn Witkin said it wasn’t belief, but that “she just felt we were at a point of profound ignorance, that we were overestimating our understanding of the way things worked.” The reference was to nature, but it might have been to the nature of science.
INQUIRIM VITAE 