God is a hacker, not an engineer

Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.