God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

If The Code Does Indeed Have Some Logical Foundation Then It Is Legitimate To Consider All The Evidence, Both Good And Bad, In Any Attempt To Deduce It.

Haemoglobin Is A Very Large Molecule By Ordinary Standards, Containing About Ten Thousand Atoms, But The Chances Are That Your Haemoglobin And Mine Are Identical, And Significantly Different From That Of A Pig Or Horse. You May Be Impressed By How Much Human Beings Differ From One Another, But If You Were To Look Into The Fine Details Of The Molecules Of Which They Are Constructed, You Would Be Astonished By Their Similarity.

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.

Chance Is The Only Source Of True Novelty.

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.