A Man Who Is Right Every Time

It Is One Of The More Striking Generalizations Of Biochemistry - Which Surprisingly Is Hardly Ever Mentioned In The Biochemical Textbooks - That The Twenty Amino Acids And The Four Bases, Are, With Minor Reservations, The Same Throughout Nature.

Almost All Aspects Of Life Are Engineered At The Molecular Level, And Without Understanding Molecules We Can Only Have A Very Sketchy Understanding Of Life Itself.

While Occam's Razor Is A Useful Tool In The Physical Sciences, It Can Be A Very Dangerous Implement In Biology. It Is Thus Very Rash To Use Simplicity And Elegance As A Guide In Biological Research.

What Could Be More Foolish Than To Base One's Entire View Of Life On Ideas That, However Plausible At The Time, Now Appear To Be Quite Erroneous? And What Would Be More Important Than To Find Our True Place In The Universe By Removing One By One These Unfortunate Vestiges Of Earlier Beliefs?

This Seems Highly Likely, Especially As It Has Been Shown That In Several Systems Mutations Affecting The Same Amino Acid Are Extremely Near Together On The Genetic Map.