God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

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.

The Balance Of Evidence Both From The Cell-free System And From The Study Of Mutation, Suggests That This Does Not Occur At Random, And That Triplets Coding The Same Amino Acid May Well Be Rather Similar.

It Is Essential To Understand Our Brains In Some Detail If We Are To Assess Correctly Our Place In This Vast And Complicated Universe We See All Around Us.

For Simplicity One Can Think Of The + Class As Having One Extra Base At Some Point Or Other In The Genetic Message And The - Class As Having One Too Few.

It Would Appear That The Number Of Nonsense Triplets Is Rather Low, Since We Only Occasionally Come Across Them. However This Conclusion Is Less Secure Than Our Other Deductions About The General Nature Of The Genetic Code.