Evolution Is Cleverer Than You Are.

Almost All Aspects Of Life Are Engineered At The Molecular Level, And Without Understanding Molecules We Can Only Have A Very Sketchy Understanding Of Life Itself.

Exploratory Research Is Really Like Working In A Fog. You Don't Know Where You're Going. You're Just Groping. Then People Learn About It Afterwards And Think How Straightforward It Was.

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.

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

Haemoglobin Is A Very Large Molecule By Ordinary Standards, Containing About Ten Thousand Atoms, But The Chances Are That Your Haemoglobin And Mine Are Identical, And Significantly Different From That Of A Pig Or Horse. You May Be Impressed By How Much Human Beings Differ From One Another, But If You Were To Look Into The Fine Details Of The Molecules Of Which They Are Constructed, You Would Be Astonished By Their Similarity.