First they said my [cyclol] structure [of proteins] couldn't exist. Then when it was found in Nature they said it couldn't be synthesized in a laboratory. Then when it was synthesized they said it wasn't important anyway.
Quoted in Maureen M. Julian in G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes (eds.), Women of Science (1990)
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