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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.

There Is No Form Of Prose More Difficult To Understand And More Tedious To Read Than The Average Scientific Paper.

Protein Synthesis Is A Central Problem For The Whole Of Biology, And That It Is In All Probability Closely Related To Gene Action.

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.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clinches Into Place.