God Is A Hacker, Not

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 Has Not Escaped Our Notice That The Specific Pairing We Have Postulated Immediately Suggests A Possible Copying Mechanism For The Genetic Material.

The Major Credit I Think Jim And I Deserve ... Is For Selecting The Right Problem And Sticking To It. It's True That By Blundering About We Stumbled On Gold, But The Fact Remains That We Were Looking For Gold. Both Of Us Had Decided, Quite Independently Of Each Other, That The Central Problem In Molecular Biology Was The Chemical Structure Of The Gene. ... We Could Not See What The Answer Was, But We Considered It So Important That We Were Determined To Think About It Long And Hard, From Any Relevant Point Of View.

A Good Scientist Values Criticism Almost Higher Than Friendship: No, In Science Criticism Is The Height And Measure Of Friendship.

Rather Than Believe That Watson And Crick Made The Dna Structure, I Would Rather Stress That The Structure Made Watson And Crick.