My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

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