It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.

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

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

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

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.

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.