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In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually Lazy And Especially Dislike Reading Experimental Papers. He Seemed To Have Very Strong Biological Intuitions But Unfortunately Of Negative Sign.

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. Both Of Us Had Decided, Quite Independently Of Each Other, That The Central Problem In Molecular Biology Was The Chemical Structure Of The Gene. ... We Could Not See What The Answer Was, But We Considered It So Important That We Were Determined To Think About It Long And Hard, From Any Relevant Point Of View.

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.

The Balance Of Evidence Both From The Cell-free System And From The Study Of Mutation, Suggests That This Does Not Occur At Random, And That Triplets Coding The Same Amino Acid May Well Be Rather Similar.

Rather Than Believe That Watson And Crick Made The Dna Structure, I Would Rather Stress That The Structure Made Watson And Crick.