God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

If, For Example, All The Codons Are Triplets, Then In Addition To The Correct Reading Of The Message, There Are Two Incorrect Readings Which We Shall Obtain If We Do Not Start The Grouping Into Sets Of Three At The Right Place.

A Busy Life Is A Wasted Life.

Moreover The Incorporation Requires The Same Components Needed For Protein Synthesis, And Is Inhibited By The Same Inhibitors. Thus The System Is Most Unlikely To Be A Complete Artefact And Is Very Probably Closely Related To Genuine Protein Synthesis.

I Think She [rosalind Franklin] Was A Good Experimentalist But Certainly Not Of The First Rank. She Was Simply Not In The Same Class As Eigen Or Bragg Or Pauling, Nor Was She As Good As Dorothy Hodgkin. She Did Not Even Select Dna To Study. It Was Given To Her. Her Theoretical Crystallography Was Very Average.

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.