Chance Is The Only Source Of True

It Would Appear That The Number Of Nonsense Triplets Is Rather Low, Since We Only Occasionally Come Across Them. However This Conclusion Is Less Secure Than Our Other Deductions About The General Nature Of The Genetic Code.

Jim And I Hit It Off Immediately, Partly Because Our Interests Were Astonishingly Similar And Partly, I Suspect, Because A Certain Youthful Arrogance, A Ruthlessness, An Impatience With Sloppy Thinking Can Naturally To Both Of Us.

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.

How Is The Base Sequence, Divided Into Codons? There Is Nothing In The Backbone Of The Nucleic Acid, Which Is Perfectly Regular, To Show Us How To Group The Bases Into Codons.

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.