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In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually Lazy And Especially Dislike Reading Experimental Papers. He Seemed To Have Very Strong Biological Intuitions But Unfortunately Of Negative Sign.

If, For Example, All The Codons Are Triplets, Then In Addition To The Correct Reading Of The Message, There Are Two Incorrect Readings Which We Shall Obtain If We Do Not Start The Grouping Into Sets Of Three At The Right Place.

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.

We Are Sometimes Asked What The Result Would Be If We Put Four +'s In One Gene. To Answer This My Colleagues Have Recently Put Together Not Merely Four But Six +'s.

Exploratory Research Is Really Like Working In A Fog. You Don't Know Where You're Going. You're Just Groping. Then People Learn About It Afterwards And Think How Straightforward It Was.