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The Ultimate Aim Of The Modern Movement In Biology Is In Fact To Explain All Biology In Terms Of Physics And Chemistry.

If Watson And I Had Not Discovered The [dna] Structure, Instead Of Being Revealed With A Flourish It Would Have Trickled Out And That Its Impact Would Have Been Far Less. For This Sort Of Reason Stent Had Argued That A Scientific Discovery Is More Akin To A Work Of Art Than Is Generally Admitted. Style, He Argues, Is As Important As Content. I Am Not Completely Convinced By This Argument, At Least In This Case.

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.

Our ... Advantage Was That We Had Evolved Unstated But Fruitful Methods Of Collaboration ... If Either Of Us Suggested A New Idea, The Other, While Taking It Seriously, Would Attempt To Demolish It In A Candid But Non-hostile Manner.

It Now Seems Certain That The Amino Acid Sequence Of Any Protein Is Determined By The Sequence Of Bases In Some Region Of A Particular Nucleic Acid Molecule.