Avoid The Temptation To Work So Hard

For Simplicity One Can Think Of The + Class As Having One Extra Base At Some Point Or Other In The Genetic Message And The - Class As Having One Too Few.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clicks Into Place. One Immediately Sees How Many Previously Puzzling Facts Are Neatly Explained By The New Hypothesis. One Could Kick Oneself For Not Having The Idea Earlier, It Now Seems So Obvious. Yet Before, Everything Was In A Fog.

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.

We Are Sometimes Asked What The Result Would Be If We Put Four +'s In One Gene. To Answer This My Colleagues Have Recently Put Together Not Merely Four But Six +'s.

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.