In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually

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?

An Honest Man, Armed With All The Knowledge Available To Us Now, Could Only State That In Some Sense, The Origin Of Life Appears At The Moment To Be Almost A Miracle, So Many Are The Conditions Which Would Have Had To Have Been Satisfied To Get It Going.

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.

The Meaning Of This Observation Is Unclear, But It Raises The Unfortunate Possibility Of Ambiguous Triplets; That Is, Triplets Which May Code More Than One Amino Acid. However One Would Certainly Expect Such Triplets To Be In A Minority.