It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

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.

If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

A busy life is a wasted life.

Anybody who believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old needs psychiatric help.

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.