Avoid The Temptation To Work So Hard

A Knowledge Of The True Age Of The Earth And Of The Fossil Record Makes It Impossible For Any Balanced Intellect To Believe In The Literal Truth Of Every Part Of The Bible In The Way That Fundamentalists Do.

Protein Synthesis Is A Central Problem For The Whole Of Biology, And That It Is In All Probability Closely Related To Gene Action.

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.

One Of The Most Frightening Things In The Western World, And In This Country In Particular, Is The Number Of People Who Believe In Things That Are Scientifically False. If Someone Tells Me That The Earth Is Less Than 10,000 Years Old, In My Opinion He Should See A Psychiatrist.

For Simplicity One Can Think Of The + Class As Having One Extra Base At Some Point Or Other In The Genetic Message And The - Class As Having One Too Few.