Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

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

Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice.

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

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.

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.