A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

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.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

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.

Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

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.