It Is Notoriously Difficult To

The Ultimate Aim Of The Modern Movement In Biology Is In Fact To Explain All Biology In Terms Of Physics And Chemistry.

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.

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.

It Has Not Escaped Our Notice That The Specific Pairing We Have Postulated Immediately Suggests A Possible Copying Mechanism For The Genetic Material.

To Produce A Really Good Biological Theory One Must Try To See Through The Clutter Produced By Evolution To The Basic Mechanisms Lying Beneath Them, Realizing That They Are Likely To Be Overlaid By Other, Secondary Mechanisms. What Seems To Physicists To Be A Hopelessly Complicated Process May Have Been What Nature Found Simplest, Because Nature Could Only Build On What Was Already There.