Free Will Is Located In Or Near

Avoid The Temptation To Work So Hard That There Is No Time Left For Serious Thinking.

It Has Not Escaped Our Notice That The Specific Pairing We Have Postulated Immediately Suggests A Possible Copying Mechanism For The Genetic Material.

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. Both Of Us Had Decided, Quite Independently Of Each Other, That The Central Problem In Molecular Biology Was The Chemical Structure Of The Gene. ... We Could Not See What The Answer Was, But We Considered It So Important That We Were Determined To Think About It Long And Hard, From Any Relevant Point Of View.

To Produce A Really Good Biological Theory One Must Try To See Through The Clutter Produced By Evolution To The Basic Mechanisms Lying Beneath Them, Realizing That They Are Likely To Be Overlaid By Other, Secondary Mechanisms. What Seems To Physicists To Be A Hopelessly Complicated Process May Have Been What Nature Found Simplest, Because Nature Could Only Build On What Was Already There.

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.