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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.

Trying To Determine The Structure Of A Protein By Uv Spectroscopy Was Like Trying To Determine The Structure Of A Piano By Listening To The Sound It Made While Being Dropped Down A Flight Of Stairs.

Chance Is The Only Source Of True Novelty.

The Meaning Of This Observation Is Unclear, But It Raises The Unfortunate Possibility Of Ambiguous Triplets; That Is, Triplets Which May Code More Than One Amino Acid. However One Would Certainly Expect Such Triplets To Be In A Minority.

My Own Prejudices Are Exactly The Opposite Of The Functionalists': "if You Want To Understand Function, Study Structure".