A Good Scientist Values Criticism Almost Higher

Do Codons Overlap? In Other Words, As We Read Along The Genetic Message Do We Find A Base Which Is A Member Of Two Or More Codons? It Now Seems Fairly Certain That Codons Do Not Overlap.

Jim And I Hit It Off Immediately, Partly Because Our Interests Were Astonishingly Similar And Partly, I Suspect, Because A Certain Youthful Arrogance, A Ruthlessness, An Impatience With Sloppy Thinking Can Naturally To Both Of Us.

A Final Proof Of Our Ideas Can Only Be Obtained By Detailed Studies On The Alterations Produced In The Amino Acid Sequence Of A Protein By Mutations Of The Type Discussed Here.

The Major Credit I Think Jim And I Deserve Is For Selecting The Right Problem And Sticking To It. It's True That By Blundering About We Stumbled On Gold, But The Fact Remains That We Were Looking For Gold.

One Can Say, Looking At The Papers In This Symposium, That The Elucidation Of The Genetic Code Is Indeed A Great Achievement. It Is, In A Sense, The Key To Molecular Biology Because It Shows How The Great Polymer Languages, The Nucleic Acid Language And The Protein Language, Are Linked Together.