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It has seemed to me that men can have a hard time accepting that women can be smarter, particularly when a woman points out mistakes that the man has made. Throughout my career, I often had difficulties in getting a point across because the men couldn’t bear it that I might ‘win’, and in some cases this got even more difficult after the Nobel Prize.

— Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

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