God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

When You Start In Science, You Are Brainwashed Into Believing How Careful You Must Be, And How Difficult It Is To Discover Things. There's Something That Might Be Called The 'graduate Student Syndrome'; Graduate Students Hardly Believe They Can Make A Discovery.

Unfortunately It Makes The Unambiguous Determination Of Triplets By These Methods Much More Difficult Than Would Be The Case If There Were Only One Triplet For Each Amino Acid.

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If Watson And I Had Not Discovered The [dna] Structure, Instead Of Being Revealed With A Flourish It Would Have Trickled Out And That Its Impact Would Have Been Far Less. For This Sort Of Reason Stent Had Argued That A Scientific Discovery Is More Akin To A Work Of Art Than Is Generally Admitted. Style, He Argues, Is As Important As Content. I Am Not Completely Convinced By This Argument, At Least In This Case.

Moreover The Incorporation Requires The Same Components Needed For Protein Synthesis, And Is Inhibited By The Same Inhibitors. Thus The System Is Most Unlikely To Be A Complete Artefact And Is Very Probably Closely Related To Genuine Protein Synthesis.