Evolution Is Cleverer Than You Are.

God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

It Now Seems Certain That The Amino Acid Sequence Of Any Protein Is Determined By The Sequence Of Bases In Some Region Of A Particular Nucleic Acid Molecule.

You Can Do Reverse Engineering, But You Can’t Do Reverse Hacking.

Finally One Should Add That In Spite Of The Great Complexity Of Protein Synthesis And In Spite Of The Considerable Technical Difficulties In Synthesizing Polynucleotides With Defined Sequences It Is Not Unreasonable To Hope That All These Points Will Be Clarified In The Near Future, And That The Genetic Code Will Be Completely Established On A Sound Experimental Basis Within A Few Years.

To Produce A Really Good Biological Theory One Must Try To See Through The Clutter Produced By Evolution To The Basic Mechanisms Lying Beneath Them, Realizing That They Are Likely To Be Overlaid By Other, Secondary Mechanisms. What Seems To Physicists To Be A Hopelessly Complicated Process May Have Been What Nature Found Simplest, Because Nature Could Only Build On What Was Already There.