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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 Theory Should Not Attempt To Explain All The Facts, Because Some Of The Facts Are Wrong

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One Can Say, Looking At The Papers In This Symposium, That The Elucidation Of The Genetic Code Is Indeed A Great Achievement. It Is, In A Sense, The Key To Molecular Biology Because It Shows How The Great Polymer Languages, The Nucleic Acid Language And The Protein Language, Are Linked Together.

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.