Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within a few years.

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking.

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

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